Table 2.

Regression analyses of telomere length and mtDNA copy number of post-mortem dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in suicide completers and controls.

	Telomere length				mtDNA copy number
	βa	s.e.	t	p valueb	βa	s.e.	t	p valueb
Total samples (n = 45); Suicide completers (n = 20) and Controls (n = 25)
—Phenotype (Suicide vs. Control)	−0.3006	0.0875	−3.436	0.0014	−0.2803	0.0929	−3.018	0.0044
—Age	−0.0064	0.0026	−2.462	0.0182	−0.0045	0.0028	−1.633	0.1102
—Sex (Male vs. Female)	−0.0552	0.0918	−0.601	0.5510	−0.1333	0.0975	−1.368	0.1790
—PMI	0.0035	0.0050	0.707	0.4835	−0.0001	0.0053	−0.006	0.9951

Abbreviations: PMI, post-mortem interval; s.e., standard error. ^aβ means regression coefficient derived from generalized linear models. ^bp values shown in bold are significant at <0.05.