A study in patients with schizophrenia reported a nominally significant decrease in basal PBMC TA in cases compared to controls. 71) Two genetic studies deserve mentioning; in a study in Han Chinese subjects researchers investigated NVL gene variants in cases with MDD and schizophrenia and compared these to non-psychiatric controls.
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Telomere Biology in Mood Disorders: An Updated, Comprehensive Review of the Literature.
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The statistical analysis utilized by the authors demonstrated that this difference carried a large effect size which corresponded to approximately 10 years of accelerated aging in the mood disorder subjects and as such was highly significant.