Fig. 4

Global network measures of two groups, and between-group differences in these measures. Clustering coefficient (A, B), characteristic path length (C, D), Gamma (E, F), Lambda (G, H), small-world index (I, J), Global efficiency (K, L), transitivity (M, N), and modularity (O, P) of the non-NPSLE and HCs networks. The red * lying outside of the confidence intervals indicates the difference between the two groups in this density is significant (B, D, F, H, G, L, N, P). Except for a few densities, the clustering coefficient in HCs was found to be lower than that in non-NPSLE group (P < 0.05, FDR-corrected; B), the rest of the measures were not significantly different between the two groups. The non-NPSLE group does not follow the small-world attribute in densities of 0.38, 0.45, and 0.47