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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Autism Spectr Disord. 2020 Feb 6;72:101518. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2020.101518

Table 4:

Univariate Essential Elements Analysis of the Mother Cohorts

Element Univariate Test ASD mean in μg/mL TD mean in μg/mL ASD SD TD SD % TD Below Detection limit % ASD Below Detection limit Ratio ASD/TD P-value AUROC False Discovery Rate
Boron Mann-Whitney 1.52 1.34 8.81E-01 7.29E-01 0 0 1.14 0.44 0.56
Calcium Equal Variance t-test 1.14E+02 91.5 72.9 59.6 0 0 1.24 0.22 0.58
Chromium Mann-Whitney 2.95E-04 3.43E-04 1.06E-04 1.16E-04 96.6 100 8.63E-01 0.13 0.60
Cobalt Mann-Whitney 8.77E-04 1.06E-03 3.45E-04 5.26E-04 69.0 82.1 8.31E-01 0.17 0.60
Copper Mann-Whitney 1.05E-02 9.86E-03 3.47E-03 6.92E-03 0 0 1.06 7.5E-02 0.64
Iron Mann-Whitney 2.22E-01 1.86E-01 1.30E-01 9.54E-02 31.0 25.0 1.20 0.31 0.58
Lithium Mann-Whitney 6.23E-02 6.97E-02 4.40E-02 5.35E-02 0 0 8.93E-01 0.60 0.54
Magnesium Equal Variance t-test 7.37E+01 6.63E+01 2.26E+01 2.66E+01 0 0 1.11 0.26 0.63
Manganese Mann-Whitney 1.02E-03 8.48E-04 5.00E-04 4.62E-04 6.9 0 1.20 0.14 0.61
Molybdenum Mann-Whitney 3.99E-02 5.01E-02 2.97E-02 2.58E-02 0 0 7.95E-01 6.5E-02 0.64
Phosphorus Equal Variance t-test 592 658 218 200 0 0 9.00E-01 0.24 0.60
Potassium Mann-Whitney 25.8 24.4 11.9 10.6 0 0 1.05 0.71 0.53
Selenium Equal Variance t-test 4.81E-02 4.86E-02 1.26E-02 1.64E-02 0 0 9.90E-01 0.90 0.52
Sodium Mann-Whitney 94.6 86.8 57.6 51.4 0 0 1.09 0.53 0.55
Strontium Equal Variance t-test 1.44E-01 1.24E-01 8.01E-02 5.91E-02 0 0 1.16 0.28 0.55
Sulfur Mann-Whitney 559 510 251 188 0 0 1.10 0.40 0.57
Vanadium Mann-Whitney 2.32E-04 2.45E-04 1.03E-04 6.92E-05 79.3 78.6 9.44E-01 0.26 0.58
Zinc Mann-Whitney 3.15E-01 3.01E-01 2.06E-01 1.60E-01 0 0 1.04 0.94 0.51

No FDR is computed as no element resulted in p < 0.05.