“…AMD is becoming a major global public health issue, and it presents itself as a complex disease caused by genetic and environmental factors. Studies have shown that environmental factors, such as increasing age (Klein et al, 1997;Friedman et al, 2004) and cigarette smoking (Seddon et al, 1996;Tomany et al, 2004), have risk impacts on AMD, and multiple susceptible genetic loci, which primarily regulate the complement, lipid, angiogenic, and extracellular matrix pathways, also contribute to AMD, such as CFH (Edwards et al, 2005;Klein et al, 2005), C3 (Yates et al, 2007;Maller et al, 2007) and CFI (Fagerness et al, 2009;Qian et al, 2014), APOE (Souied et al, 1998;McKay et al, 2011), LIPC (Neale et al, 2010) and TIMP3 (Chen et al, 2010).…”