Epigenetic clock analysis of blood samples in drug-naive first-episode schizophrenia patients | BMC Psychiatry
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe and chronic psychiatric disorder with premature age-related physiological changes. However, numerous previous studies examined the epigenetic age acceleration in SCZ patients and yielded inconclusive results. In this study, we propose to explore the epigenetic age acceleration in drug-naive first-episode SCZ (FSCZ) patients and investigate whether epigenetic age acceleration is associated with antipsychotic treatment, psychotic symptoms, cognition, and subcortical volumes. We assessed the epigenetic age in 38 drug-naive FSCZ patients and 38 healthy controls by u...
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