Table 1. Comparison of brain region FA values between the DMD group and healthy controls (mean ± SD).

Location	DMD	Controls	t	P
Parietal lobe WM
Left	0.482±0.063	0.458±0.051	1.081	0.291
Right	0.463±0.063	0.430±0.046	1.523	0.141
Frontal lobe WM
Left	0.407±0.093	0.380±0.079	0.803	0.430
Right	0.417±0.087	0.378±0.070	1.259	0.220
Genu of corpus callosum	0.775±0.066	0.801±0.093	−0.805	0.429
Splenium of corpus callosum	0.790±0.123	0.883±0.047	−2.441	0.029*
Caput nuclei caudati
Left	0.132±0.030	0.154±0.050	–1.279	0.213
Right	0.138±0.031	0.148±0.053	–0.572	0.573
Occipital lobe WM
Left	0.653±0.074	0.636±0.074	0.576	0.570
Right	0.657±0.068	0.675±0.101	–0.523	0.606
Anterior cingulate
Left	0.172±0.045	0.166±0.057	0.294	0.7711
Right	0.180±0.052	0.179±0.069	0.053	0.958
Posterior cingulate
Left	0.178±0.039	0.183±0.038	–0.375	0.717
Right	0.179±0.033	0.192±0.032	–1.022	0.317
Lenticular nucleus
Left	0.121±0.028	0.112±0.027	–0.791	0.437
Right	0.114±0.027	0.125±0.024	–1.128	0.270
Posterior limb of internal capsule
Left	0.761±0.033	0.742±0.072	0.891	0.384
Right	0.787±0.023	0.752±0.079	1.592	0.132
Anterior limb of internal capsule
Left	0.626±0.090	0.624±0.088	0.071	0.944
Right	0.635±0.068	0.606±0.094	0.881	0.387
Thalamus
Left	0.272±0.064	0.293±0.055	–0.874	0.391
Right	0.284±0.048	0.272±0.055	0.589	0.562
Temporal lobe WM
Left	0.464±0.073	0.497±0.090	–1.010	0.323
Right	0.495±0.080	0.444±0.086	1.564	0.131
Hippocampus
Left	0.163±0.042	0.155±0.037	0.516	0.611
Right	0.148±0.044	0.154±0.036	–0.413	0.683
Superior cerebellar peduncle
Left	0.752±0.043	0.753±0.072	–0.015	0.988
Right	0.761±0.040	0.763±0.070	–0.135	0.894
Middle cerebellar peduncle
Left	0.738±0.059	0.760±0.088	–0.923	0.365
Right	0.774±0.075	0.797±0.060	–0.874	0.391

*, P<0.05. FA, fractional anisotropy; DMD, Duchenne muscular dystrophy; WM, white matter.