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From: Telomere shortening in leukocyte subpopulations in depression

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Between-group comparison of telomere length and age-related changes in adaptive immune cells. Top left: boxplot of telomere lengths by group and cell type. P values for groups as calculated in ANOVAs, with age as a covariate. Outliers were included into the analysis. Top right, bottom left and bottom right: observed telomere lengths per cell type in CD4+, CD8+, and CB20+ lymphocytes (as percentages of telomere lengths of a reference sample, see text) together with group-wise model fits against age (lines). Model fits span ages observed within each group. CG: control group; IS: lifetime depressed with irrelevant symptoms of depression (BDI ≤ 13); RS: lifetime depressed with relevant symptoms of depression (BDI ≥ 14).

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