SLC6A4 and depressive disorder: Our findings generally showed that this was the case (i.e., naïve depression patients showed a similar number of SERT clusters per lymphocytes but they were of a larger size than those observed in samples from control non-psychiatric patients, for example, the average size of SERT clusters in the control population was about 0.11 and 0.14 μm2 for naïve depression patients).