Five of the 19 SNPs demonstrated a nominally significant association with neovascular AMD (P < 0.05), of which two (rs3173798 and rs3211883) withstood Bonferroni correction for multiple testing (rs3173798, nominal P = 9.96 x 10-4, allele-specific odds ratio = 0.55; rs3211883, nominal P = 2.09 x 10-4, allele-specific odds ratio = 0.50).