Figure 4. Comparison of corneal epithelial thickness and corneal epithelial cell count among MCD patients and the control group. A: Scatter plot shows a significantly reduced corneal epithelial thickness observed in the patients with truncation mutations compared to the control group. B: A significantly reduced count of corneal epithelial cells was observed in the patients with truncation mutations compared to the control group. Quantification among the groups was performed using a one-way ANOVA. A p-value of less than 0.001 (***) and a p-value of less than 0.05 (*) were considered statistically significant. (ns-not significant).