Figure 5. Comparison of stromal keratocyte cell counts among MCD patients and the control group. The scatter plot shows a significantly reduced count of corneal stromal cells 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).