Table 2 Network properties differences between groups.

From: Apolipoprotein E4 effects on topological brain network organization in mild cognitive impairment

Network property

Carriers

Non-carriers

Confidence interval (95%)

p-value

Clustering index

7.92 (0.2)

8.57 (0.3)

[− 1.62, − 0.61]

0.04*10–4

Characteristic path length

28.74 (0.06)

29.04 (0.15)

[− 0.88, − 0.28]

0.03*10–3

Target attack

16.24 (0.09)

16.25 (0.09)

[− 0.12, 0.42]

0.67

Local efficiency

12.39 (0.08)

12.70 (0.13)

[− 0.78, − 0.32]

0.09*10–4

Global efficiency

11.24 (0.01)

11.19 (0.03)

[0.04, 0.14]

0.06*10–3

Global connectivity

0.06 (0.01)

0.07 (0.01)

[− 0.01, − 0.001]

0.04

Homologous regions connectivity

0.36 (0.01)

0.4 (0.01)

[− 0.08, − 0.01]

0.02

Modularity

3.83 (0.20)

4.45 (0.28)

[− 1.61, − 0.29]

0.02

  1. Network properties in each group are represented by the mean and standard deviations: mean (s.d). In bold, the significance differences, those confidence intervals that do not contain zero.
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