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WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 449-456Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2022.2131907
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Telomere length; mitochondrial DNA copy number; ageing; bipolar disorder; sibling
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This study finds consistency in cellular aging biomarkers between individuals with bipolar disorder and their siblings, suggesting shared environmental or genetic factors.
Objectives An accelerated cellular ageing has been observed in bipolar disorder (BD) using biomarkers such as telomere length (TL) and mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn). Several risk factors might drive premature ageing in individuals with BD, including a familial predisposition. This study compared TL and mtDNAcn between individuals with BD and their (un)-affected siblings, and explored factors that may explain proband-sibling differences. Methods Sixty individuals with BD and seventy-four siblings (34 affected with BD or mood disorders and 40 unaffected) were included. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) was used to measure TL and mtDNAcn from peripheral blood genomic DNA. Results TL and mtDNAcn did not significantly differ between probands and their siblings, whatever these latter were affected or not with mood disorders. However, the correlation plots of TL or mtDNAcn in proband-sibling pairs suggested that some pairs were discordant. The within proband-sibling pairs differences for TL and mtDNAcn were not explained by differences in all tested factors. Conclusions This study shows that probands with BD and their siblings are concordant for TL and mtDNAcn suggesting that they may share some environmental or genetic determinants of these two biomarkers of cellular ageing.
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