A naturally occurring model for the human retinal degenerative disease Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), caused by the SINE insertion in exon 4 of the canine erd gene encoding NDR2 is predicted to remove a part of the translated protein affecting multiple NDR2 functions, including the kinase activity (Goldstein et al., 2010). Here, STK38L is linked to Leber congenital amaurosis.