Fig. 6.
Individual artery length co-varies with total vasculature extent. A. Combined left/right arterial composition of all individual subjects ranked by total length reveals similar distributions across ages and genders. B. The observed population variance of the total arterial length is nearly 8 standard deviations greater than the mean length obtained by stochastically shuffling each of the corresponding 6 arteries within the sample. This indicates that subjects with longer-than-average vasculature also tend to have longer-than-average individual arteries.