Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3053383 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Dandan D Cheng Lijun L Craig David W DW Redman Margot M Liu Chunyu C
Behavior genetics 20100203 2
We tested whether telomere length is altered in the brains of patients diagnosed with major depression (MD), bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) by measuring mean telomere length (mTL) with real-time PCR. The samples are cerebellar gray matter from 46 SZ, 46 BP, and 15 MD patients, and 48 healthy controls. We found no difference in mTL between SZ and controls, BD and controls, MD and controls, or all cases and controls; no correlation between mTL and age was observed, either. This sugge ...[more]