A recent study by Olivares et al. established a mouse model for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in which miR-883, miR-466, and miR-345, micro-RNAs that all target eEF2 were differentially expressed at various time points during retinal development as compared to the retinas from normal C57BL6/J mice (Olivares et al., 2017). Here, EEF2 is linked to age-related macular degeneration.