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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2017 Dec 18;11(3):450–462. doi: 10.1002/aur.1909

Table 2.

Results of linear mixed effects models using diagnostic group status, age (linear and quadratic term), brain hemisphere (right- or left-side) to predict DTI metrics (fractional anisotropy [FA], mean diffusivity [MD], radial diffusivity [RD], and axial diffusivity [AD]) for the thalamus, posterior limb of the internal capsule (PLIC), and anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC). These analyses controlled for head motion and full scale IQ.

Group Age Age2 Hemisphere Age × Group Age2 × Group Hemisphere ×
Group
Group × Age ×
Hemisphere
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
Thalamus
FA −0.0049 <.05 0.0011 <.001 −4.39E-05 .01 0.0043 .009 0.0005 .04 1.67E-05 .36 −1.63E-03 .37 4.25E-05 .86
MD 0.0014 .66 −0.001 .002 3.99E-05 .08 0.0041 .12 −0.0009 .01 4.29E-05 .09 −9.01E-04 .76 6.72E-05 .86
RD 0.0037 .31 −0.001 <.001 4.44E-05 .08 −0.0039 .16 −0.0012 .001 2.98E-05 .30 7.56E-04 .81 −1.39E-04 .73
AD −0.0017 .65 −0.0002 .53 −4.75E-06 .86 0.0130 <.001 −0.0009 .03 7.38E-05 .01 −3.75E-03 .26 −1.45E-04 .74
PLIC
FA −0.0013 .77 0.0010 .002 −6.58E-05 .01 0.0125 <.001 0.0014 <.001 −3.59E-06 .90 3.18E-04 .90 −9.06E-05 .79
MD 0.0025 .43 −0.0015 <.001 7.05E-05 <.001 −0.0048 .06 −0.0008 .02 1.46E-05 .57 7.73E-04 .79 −3.02E-05 .94
RD 0.0014 .74 −0.0021 <.001 1.10E-04 <.001 −0.0070 .009 −0.0015 <.001 2.55E-05 .42 1.97E-03 .52 1.08E-04 .78
AD 0.0030 .61 −0.0009 .03 −3.00E-05 .37 0.0098 .001 −0.0002 .69 3.75E-05 .33 3.20E-04 .92 −6.73E-05 .88
ALIC
FA −0.0099 .06 0.0016 <.001 −1.33E-04 <.001 0.0330 <.001 −0.0001 .87 7.18E-05 .06 −2.48E-03 .50 −9.39E-04 <.05
MD 0.0028 .43 −0.0007 .01 4.30E-05 .06 0.0059 0.01 −0.0008 .02 1.90E-05 .47 −1.93E-03 .46 4.37E-04 .19
RD 0.0095 <.05 −0.0014 <.001 1.40E-04 <.001 −0.0168 <.001 −0.0009 .06 −3.68E-05 .29 1.35E-03 .69 8.72E-04 <.05
AD −0.0040 .56 0.0006 .26 −6.84E-05 .12 0.0552 <.001 −0.0010 .15 8.62E-05 .09 −8.41E-03 .09 −6.55E-04 .30

Bolded effects indicate values that hold after Bonferroni correction.