The phrase "supporting this study" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a study that has been previously mentioned or discussed. For example: "Previous research has suggested that climate change may be contributing to the decline of certain species, and other studies are also supporting this study."
Data supporting this study are found in Supplementary Data 1.
All the theoretical and experimental data supporting this study are available from the corresponding author.
All other data supporting this study are provided as Supplementary Information accompanying this paper.
Using 'attachment' to the parent as a criterion for supporting this study is ridiculous.
We greatly appreciate Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan for supporting this study with the Grant MOST 104-2621-B-001-008 to Y-MJ.
We greatly appreciate Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan for supporting this study with the Grant NSC 101-2621-B-001-001-MY3 to Y.-M.J.
We also acknowledge the support of the district medical officer of Health and district education officer for supporting this study.
We thank PD Dr. T. Bauer, Head of the Clinic of Pneumonology, HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, for supporting this study and M.L. Grossman for carefully reading the manuscript.
The authors wish to acknowledge the Norwegian Gordon setter breed club, the Swedish giant schnauzer breed club, the Swedish bearded collie breed club, and the Legacy of Veterinary Edvard Smidt for supporting this study.
A re-annotation of this genome is currently in progress (by NJS), and the revised annotation will be backwardly compatible with this data, and will be added to the existing GBrowse databases supporting this study.
The current authors would like to thank Mr. Rudolf Isler for his extremely valuable input in the development of the method and his skilful technical assistance, and Eco Medics AG for supporting this study with their patented equipment (patent no. WO 2009/030058A1, priority date 09/07/2007).
