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Brain size bias compensated graph-theoretical parameters are also better in women’s structural connectomes

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Acknowledgments

Data were provided in part by the Human Connectome Project, WU-Minn Consortium (Principal Investigators: David Van Essen and Kamil Ugurbil; 1U54MH091657) funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; and by the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience at Washington University.

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    Balázs Szalkai, Bálint Varga & Vince Grolmusz

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V.G. initiated the study, analyzed data, wrote the paper; B.V. contributed analytic- and software tools; B.S. computed graph parameters and performed statistical analysis; all authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Szalkai, B., Varga, B. & Grolmusz, V. Brain size bias compensated graph-theoretical parameters are also better in women’s structural connectomes. Brain Imaging and Behavior 12, 663–673 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-017-9720-0

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