Cornea Effect of Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion on the Expression of TCF 4 mRNA in Fuchs ’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy

Naoki Okumura, Ryosuke Hayashi, Masakazu Nakano, Kengo Yoshii, Kei Tashiro, Takahiko Sato, Derek J. Blake, Ross Aleff, Malinda Butz, Edward W. Highsmith, Eric D. Wieben, Michael P. Fautsch, Keith H. Baratz, Yuya Komori, Makiko Nakahara, Theofilos Tourtas, Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt, Friedrich Kruse, and Noriko Koizumi Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States Department of Ophthalmology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany