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In this study, we aimed to elucidate the most consistent white matter deficits in patients with TS.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Method:<\/jats:bold> By systematically searching online databases up to December 2020 for all DTI studies comparing fractional anisotropy (FA) between patients with TS and healthy controls (HCs), we conducted anisotropic effect size-signed differential mapping (AES-SDM) meta-analysis to investigate FA differences in TS, as well as performed meta-regression analysis to explore the effects of demographics and clinical characteristics on white matter abnormalities among TS.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> A total of eight datasets including 168 patients with TS and 163 HCs were identified. We found that TS patients showed robustly decreased FA in the corpus callosum (CC) and right inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) compared with HCs. These two regions preserved significance in the sensitivity analysis. No regions of increased FA were reported. Meta-regression analysis revealed that age, sex, tic severity, or illness duration of patients with TS were not linearly correlated with decreased FA.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> Patients with TS display deficits of white matter microstructure in the CC and right ILF known to be important for interhemispheric connections as well as long association fiber bundles within one hemisphere. 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