Table 2.
Regions demonstrating significant effects of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and adolescent smoking on FA
| Structure | Talairach coordinates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | Volume (mm3) | Peak p value a | |
| Structures with increased FA in prenatally exposed NS relative to nonexposed NS | |||||
| R frontal short association fibers | 40 | 45 | 1 | 88 | 0.0002 |
| L frontal white matter | −20 | 32 | 13 | 160 | 0.002 |
| R genu, corpus callosum | 12 | 22 | 14 | 80 | 0.002 |
| Structures with increased FA in nonexposed S relative to nonexposed NS | |||||
| L inferior longitudinal fasciculus | −24 | −85 | 4 | 120 | 0.0008 |
| R forceps minor, corpus callosum | 14 | 30 | 12 | 328 | 0.0001 |
| R internal capsule, anterior limb | 24 | 16 | 14 | 456 | <0.0001 |
| R frontal association fibers | 16 | 45 | 14 | 192 | <0.0001 |
| L splenium, corpus callosum | −8 | −34 | 15 | 384 | 0.001 |
| L forceps minor, corpus callosum | −18 | 18 | 18 | 520 | <0.0001 |
| R genu, corpus callosum | 12 | 9 | 24 | 792 | 0.0001 |
| R superior longitudinal fasciculus | 28 | 7 | 26 | 200 | 0.0001 |
| R frontal short association fibers | 16 | 32 | 24 | 80 | 0.0008 |
| Structures with increased FA in exposed S relative to nonexposed NS | |||||
| R internal capsule, anterior limb | 15 | 10 | 4 | 2608 | <0.0001 |
| R genu, corpus callosum | 10 | 27 | 4 | 2528 | 0.0001 |
| L frontal white matter | −22 | 28 | 12 | 1544 | <0.0001 |
| R genu, corpus callosum | 12 | 3 | 26 | 128 | 0.0009 |
| R superior longitudinal fasciculus | 24 | 3 | 26 | 96 | 0.001 |
| L forceps minor, corpus callosum | −16 | 5 | 26 | 96 | 0.0007 |
| Structures with decreased FA in exposed S relative to nonexposed NS | |||||
| L external capsule | −30 | −13 | 12 | 1064 | 0.0003 |
a p value of peak group difference in FA.