Table 5.

Published studies related with telomere length in schizophrenia

Literature	Patients’ telomere length	Patients number
Zhang et al. [37], 2018	Longer	1,241
Kota et al. [26], 2015	Shorter	71
Rao et al. [27], 2016	Shorter	141
Nieratschker et al. [38], 2013	Longer	539
van Mierlo et al. [28], 2017	Shorter	2
Maurya et al. [39], 2018	Longer	154
Galletly et al. [29], 2017	Shorter	48
Malaspina et al. [40], 2014	Longer	53
Monroy-Jaramillo et al. [30], 2017	Shorter	170
Cui et al. [41], 2017	Longer	126