Role of the TCF4 Gene Intronic Variant in Normal Variation of Corneal Endothelium

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Funding Acknowledgements

Startup funds were provided by the University of Western Australia and the Australian Foundation for the Prevention of Blindness; the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Grant ID 572613, 403981, and 003209); the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Grant ID MOP-82893).The authors are grateful to the Raine Study participants and their families and the Raine Study research staff for cohort coordination and data collection. The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Health and Medical Research Council for their long-term contribution to funding the study over the past 20 years and also the following institutions for providing funding for Core Management of the Raine Study: The University of Western Australia (UWA), Raine Medical Research Foundation, UWA Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, and Women and Infants Research Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Western Australian DNA Bank (a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia National Enabling Facility).