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A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean 总被引:203,自引:0,他引:203
For the tropical Pacific and Atlantic oceans, internal modes of variability that lead to climatic oscillations have been recognized, but in the Indian Ocean region a similar ocean-atmosphere interaction causing interannual climate variability has not yet been found. Here we report an analysis of observational data over the past 40 years, showing a dipole mode in the Indian Ocean: a pattern of internal variability with anomalously low sea surface temperatures off Sumatra and high sea surface temperatures in the western Indian Ocean, with accompanying wind and precipitation anomalies. The spatio-temporal links between sea surface temperatures and winds reveal a strong coupling through the precipitation field and ocean dynamics. This air-sea interaction process is unique and inherent in the Indian Ocean, and is shown to be independent of the El Ni?o/Southern Oscillation. The discovery of this dipole mode that accounts for about 12% of the sea surface temperature variability in the Indian Ocean--and, in its active years, also causes severe rainfall in eastern Africa and droughts in Indonesia--brightens the prospects for a long-term forecast of rainfall anomalies in the affected countries. 相似文献
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Onouchi Y Gunji T Burns JC Shimizu C Newburger JW Yashiro M Nakamura Y Yanagawa H Wakui K Fukushima Y Kishi F Hamamoto K Terai M Sato Y Ouchi K Saji T Nariai A Kaburagi Y Yoshikawa T Suzuki K Tanaka T Nagai T Cho H Fujino A Sekine A Nakamichi R Tsunoda T Kawasaki T Nakamura Y Hata A 《Nature genetics》2008,40(1):35-42
Kawasaki disease is a pediatric systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology for which a genetic influence is suspected. We identified a functional SNP (itpkc_3) in the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-kinase C (ITPKC) gene on chromosome 19q13.2 that is significantly associated with Kawasaki disease susceptibility and also with an increased risk of coronary artery lesions in both Japanese and US children. Transfection experiments showed that the C allele of itpkc_3 reduces splicing efficiency of the ITPKC mRNA. ITPKC acts as a negative regulator of T-cell activation through the Ca2+/NFAT signaling pathway, and the C allele may contribute to immune hyper-reactivity in Kawasaki disease. This finding provides new insights into the mechanisms of immune activation in Kawasaki disease and emphasizes the importance of activated T cells in the pathogenesis of this vasculitis. 相似文献
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Onouchi Y Ozaki K Burns JC Shimizu C Terai M Hamada H Honda T Suzuki H Suenaga T Takeuchi T Yoshikawa N Suzuki Y Yasukawa K Ebata R Higashi K Saji T Kemmotsu Y Takatsuki S Ouchi K Kishi F Yoshikawa T Nagai T Hamamoto K Sato Y Honda A Kobayashi H Sato J Shibuta S Miyawaki M Oishi K Yamaga H Aoyagi N Iwahashi S Miyashita R Murata Y Sasago K Takahashi A Kamatani N Kubo M Tsunoda T Hata A Nakamura Y Tanaka T;Japan Kawasaki Disease Genome Consortium;US Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium 《Nature genetics》2012,44(5):517-521
We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of Kawasaki disease in Japanese subjects using data from 428 individuals with Kawasaki disease (cases) and 3,379 controls genotyped at 473,803 SNPs. We validated the association results in two independent replication panels totaling 754 cases and 947 controls. We observed significant associations in the FAM167A-BLK region at 8p22-23 (rs2254546, P = 8.2 × 10(-21)), in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region at 6p21.3 (rs2857151, P = 4.6 × 10(-11)) and in the CD40 region at 20q13 (rs4813003, P = 4.8 × 10(-8)). We also replicated the association of a functional SNP of FCGR2A (rs1801274, P = 1.6 × 10(-6)) identified in a recently reported GWAS of Kawasaki disease. Our findings provide new insights into the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of Kawasaki disease. 相似文献
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