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. 2017 Apr 11;7(4):e1090. doi: 10.1038/tp.2017.9

Table 2. Diagnosis effects and the sex-by-diagnosis interaction effect on fractional anisotropy values in frontal and non-frontal connectivity tracts.

Frontal tracts Diagnostic effect in males
Diagnostic effect in females
Sex-by-diagnosis interaction
  F P-value F P-value F P-value
Anterior segment AF left 12.75 0.001a 0.09 0.764 8.80 0.003a
Anterior segment AF right 8.90 0.003a 1.56 0.215 10.97 0.001a
Long segment AF left 7.21 0.008a 0.18 0.675 5.32 0.022a
Long segment AF right 0.60 0.444 0.32 0.573 1.22 0.272
Cingulum left 13.15 <0.001a 0.01 0.943 7.67 0.006a
Cingulum right 9.87 0.002a 0.01 0.937 5.66 0.018a
Uncinate left 14.13 <0.001a 0.30 0.588 9.86 0.002a
Uncinate right 12.06 0.001a 1.37 0.245 12.33 0.001a
IFOF left 11.80 0.001a 0.09 0.771 5.89 0.016a
IFOF right 10.75 0.001a 0.00 0.988 6.04 0.015a
Non-frontal tracts
 Posterior segment AF left 5.06 0.026a 0.00 0.975 2.73 0.100
 Posterior segment AF right 4.30 0.040a 0.11 0.737 3.14 0.078
 ILF left 8.92 0.003a 0.70 0.408 3.08 0.081
 ILF right 6.02 0.016a 0.01 0.946 2.82 0.095

Abbreviations: AF, arcuate fasciculus; IFOF, inferior frontal occipital fasciculus; ILF, inferior longitudinal fasciculus; IQ, intelligence quotient.

Scanning centre, age and full scale IQ, were all included as covariates.

a

P-values are significant at a level <0.05 after Holm-Bonferroni correction.