Structural connectome alterations between individuals with autism and neurotypical controls using feature representation learning

Table 1 Demographic information of study participants

Information		NYU		TCD		SDSU		p-value^b
Number (Autism/Control)		29/18		18/19		33/24		0.475^a
Age	Autism	9.61 ± 6.16	p = 0.807	14.46 ± 3.30	p = 0.209	12.89 ± 3.23	p = 0.559	0.004
Age	Control	10.01 ± 3.95	p = 0.807	15.83 ± 3.21	p = 0.209	13.39 ± 2.96	p = 0.559	0.003
Sex (male:female)	Autism	24:5	p = 0.243^a	18:0	p = 1^a	26:7	p = 0.343^a	0.117^a
Sex (male:female)	Control	17:1	p = 0.243^a	19:0	p = 1^a	22:2	p = 0.343^a	0.450^a
ADOS – Total		10.00 ± 3.36		8.72 ± 2.44		–		0.192
ADOS – Social cognition		7.50 ± 2.09		5.78 ± 2.37		–		0.023
ADOS – Communication		2.5 ± 1.70		2.94 ± 0.87		–		0.326
ADOS – Repeated behavior/interest		1.40 ± 1.27		0.22 ± 0.55		–		< 0.001

Mean and standard deviation are reported
NYU New York University Langone Medical Center, TCD Trinity College Dublin, SDSU San Diego State University, ADOS Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
^aChi-square test
^bThe p-values were reported for the lowest value among three possible combinations from three groups

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