Shortened telomere in unremitted schizophrenia

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 292-297

  Kota, Lakshmi Narayanan ^a   Purushottam, Meera ^a   Moily, Nagaraj S ^a,b   Jain, Sanjeev ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

biological psychiatry; genetics in psychiatry; real time polymerase chain reaction; schizophrenia; telomere shortening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENESCENCE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; REMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TELOMERE SHORTENING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928588707     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12260     Document Type: Article

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