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Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests 总被引:106,自引:0,他引:106
Valentini R Matteucci G Dolman AJ Schulze ED Rebmann C Moors EJ Granier A Gross P Jensen NO Pilegaard K Lindroth A Grelle A Bernhofer C Grünwald T Aubinet M Ceulemans R Kowalski AS Vesala T Rannik U Berbigier P Loustau D Gudmundsson J Thorgeirsson H Ibrom A Morgenstern K Clement R 《Nature》2000,404(6780):861-865
Carbon exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere is one of the key processes that need to be assessed in the context of the Kyoto Protocol. Several studies suggest that the terrestrial biosphere is gaining carbon, but these estimates are obtained primarily by indirect methods, and the factors that control terrestrial carbon exchange, its magnitude and primary locations, are under debate. Here we present data of net ecosystem carbon exchange, collected between 1996 and 1998 from 15 European forests, which confirm that many European forest ecosystems act as carbon sinks. The annual carbon balances range from an uptake of 6.6 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year to a release of nearly 1 t C ha(-1) yr(-1), with a large variability between forests. The data show a significant increase of carbon uptake with decreasing latitude, whereas the gross primary production seems to be largely independent of latitude. Our observations indicate that, in general, ecosystem respiration determines net ecosystem carbon exchange. Also, for an accurate assessment of the carbon balance in a particular forest ecosystem, remote sensing of the normalized difference vegetation index or estimates based on forest inventories may not be sufficient. 相似文献
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Stefansson H Helgason A Thorleifsson G Steinthorsdottir V Masson G Barnard J Baker A Jonasdottir A Ingason A Gudnadottir VG Desnica N Hicks A Gylfason A Gudbjartsson DF Jonsdottir GM Sainz J Agnarsson K Birgisdottir B Ghosh S Olafsdottir A Cazier JB Kristjansson K Frigge ML Thorgeirsson TE Gulcher JR Kong A Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2005,37(2):129-137
A refined physical map of chromosome 17q21.31 uncovered a 900-kb inversion polymorphism. Chromosomes with the inverted segment in different orientations represent two distinct lineages, H1 and H2, that have diverged for as much as 3 million years and show no evidence of having recombined. The H2 lineage is rare in Africans, almost absent in East Asians but found at a frequency of 20% in Europeans, in whom the haplotype structure is indicative of a history of positive selection. Here we show that the H2 lineage is undergoing positive selection in the Icelandic population, such that carrier females have more children and have higher recombination rates than noncarriers. 相似文献
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Helgadottir A Manolescu A Helgason A Thorleifsson G Thorsteinsdottir U Gudbjartsson DF Gretarsdottir S Magnusson KP Gudmundsson G Hicks A Jonsson T Grant SF Sainz J O'Brien SJ Sveinbjornsdottir S Valdimarsson EM Matthiasson SE Levey AI Abramson JL Reilly MP Vaccarino V Wolfe ML Gudnason V Quyyumi AA Topol EJ Rader DJ Thorgeirsson G Gulcher JR Hakonarson H Kong A Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2006,38(1):68-74
Variants of the gene ALOX5AP (also known as FLAP) encoding arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase activating protein are known to be associated with risk of myocardial infarction. Here we show that a haplotype (HapK) spanning the LTA4H gene encoding leukotriene A4 hydrolase, a protein in the same biochemical pathway as ALOX5AP, confers modest risk of myocardial infarction in an Icelandic cohort. Measurements of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) production suggest that this risk is mediated through upregulation of the leukotriene pathway. Three cohorts from the United States also show that HapK confers a modest relative risk (1.16) in European Americans, but it confers a threefold larger risk in African Americans. About 27% of the European American controls carried at least one copy of HapK, as compared with only 6% of African American controls. Our analyses indicate that HapK is very rare in Africa and that its occurrence in African Americans is due to European admixture. Interactions with other genetic or environmental risk factors that are more common in African Americans are likely to account for the greater relative risk conferred by HapK in this group. 相似文献
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Holm H Gudbjartsson DF Sulem P Masson G Helgadottir HT Zanon C Magnusson OT Helgason A Saemundsdottir J Gylfason A Stefansdottir H Gretarsdottir S Matthiasson SE Thorgeirsson GM Jonasdottir A Sigurdsson A Stefansson H Werge T Rafnar T Kiemeney LA Parvez B Muhammad R Roden DM Darbar D Thorleifsson G Walters GB Kong A Thorsteinsdottir U Arnar DO Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2011,43(4):316-320
Through complementary application of SNP genotyping, whole-genome sequencing and imputation in 38,384 Icelanders, we have discovered a previously unidentified sick sinus syndrome susceptibility gene, MYH6, encoding the alpha heavy chain subunit of cardiac myosin. A missense variant in this gene, c.2161C>T, results in the conceptual amino acid substitution p.Arg721Trp, has an allelic frequency of 0.38% in Icelanders and associates with sick sinus syndrome with an odds ratio = 12.53 and P = 1.5 × 10?2?. We show that the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with sick sinus syndrome is around 6% for non-carriers of c.2161C>T but is approximately 50% for carriers of the c.2161C>T variant. 相似文献
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Thorgeirsson TE Geller F Sulem P Rafnar T Wiste A Magnusson KP Manolescu A Thorleifsson G Stefansson H Ingason A Stacey SN Bergthorsson JT Thorlacius S Gudmundsson J Jonsson T Jakobsdottir M Saemundsdottir J Olafsdottir O Gudmundsson LJ Bjornsdottir G Kristjansson K Skuladottir H Isaksson HJ Gudbjartsson T Jones GT Mueller T Gottsäter A Flex A Aben KK de Vegt F Mulders PF Isla D Vidal MJ Asin L Saez B Murillo L Blondal T Kolbeinsson H Stefansson JG Hansdottir I Runarsdottir V Pola R Lindblad B 《Nature》2008,452(7187):638-642
Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death, causing about 5 million premature deaths worldwide each year. Evidence for genetic influence on smoking behaviour and nicotine dependence (ND) has prompted a search for susceptibility genes. Furthermore, assessing the impact of sequence variants on smoking-related diseases is important to public health. Smoking is the major risk factor for lung cancer (LC) and is one of the main risk factors for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Here we identify a common variant in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene cluster on chromosome 15q24 with an effect on smoking quantity, ND and the risk of two smoking-related diseases in populations of European descent. The variant has an effect on the number of cigarettes smoked per day in our sample of smokers. The same variant was associated with ND in a previous genome-wide association study that used low-quantity smokers as controls, and with a similar approach we observe a highly significant association with ND. A comparison of cases of LC and PAD with population controls each showed that the variant confers risk of LC and PAD. The findings provide a case study of a gene-environment interaction, highlighting the role of nicotine addiction in the pathology of other serious diseases. 相似文献
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Gudbjartsson DF Arnar DO Helgadottir A Gretarsdottir S Holm H Sigurdsson A Jonasdottir A Baker A Thorleifsson G Kristjansson K Palsson A Blondal T Sulem P Backman VM Hardarson GA Palsdottir E Helgason A Sigurjonsdottir R Sverrisson JT Kostulas K Ng MC Baum L So WY Wong KS Chan JC Furie KL Greenberg SM Sale M Kelly P MacRae CA Smith EE Rosand J Hillert J Ma RC Ellinor PT Thorgeirsson G Gulcher JR Kong A Thorsteinsdottir U Stefansson K 《Nature》2007,448(7151):353-357
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in humans and is characterized by chaotic electrical activity of the atria. It affects one in ten individuals over the age of 80 years, causes significant morbidity and is an independent predictor of mortality. Recent studies have provided evidence of a genetic contribution to AF. Mutations in potassium-channel genes have been associated with familial AF but account for only a small fraction of all cases of AF. We have performed a genome-wide association scan, followed by replication studies in three populations of European descent and a Chinese population from Hong Kong and find a strong association between two sequence variants on chromosome 4q25 and AF. Here we show that about 35% of individuals of European descent have at least one of the variants and that the risk of AF increases by 1.72 and 1.39 per copy. The association with the stronger variant is replicated in the Chinese population, where it is carried by 75% of individuals and the risk of AF is increased by 1.42 per copy. A stronger association was observed in individuals with typical atrial flutter. Both variants are adjacent to PITX2, which is known to have a critical function in left-right asymmetry of the heart. 相似文献
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Gretarsdottir S Thorleifsson G Reynisdottir ST Manolescu A Jonsdottir S Jonsdottir T Gudmundsdottir T Bjarnadottir SM Einarsson OB Gudjonsdottir HM Hawkins M Gudmundsson G Gudmundsdottir H Andrason H Gudmundsdottir AS Sigurdardottir M Chou TT Nahmias J Goss S Sveinbjörnsdottir S Valdimarsson EM Jakobsson F Agnarsson U Gudnason V Thorgeirsson G Fingerle J Gurney M Gudbjartsson D Frigge ML Kong A Stefansson K Gulcher JR 《Nature genetics》2003,35(2):131-138
We previously mapped susceptibility to stroke to chromosome 5q12. Here we finely mapped this locus and tested it for association with stroke. We found the strongest association in the gene encoding phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D), especially for carotid and cardiogenic stroke, the forms of stroke related to atherosclerosis. Notably, we found that haplotypes can be classified into three distinct groups: wild-type, at-risk and protective. We also observed a substantial disregulation of multiple PDE4D isoforms in affected individuals. We propose that PDE4D is involved in the pathogenesis of stroke, possibly through atherosclerosis, which is the primary pathological process underlying ischemic stroke. 相似文献
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H A Jaffe C Danel G Longenecker M Metzger Y Setoguchi M A Rosenfeld T W Gant S S Thorgeirsson L D Stratford-Perricaudet M Perricaudet 《Nature genetics》1992,1(5):372-378
Replication deficient, recombinant adenovirus (Ad) vectors do not require target cell replication for transfer and expression of exogenous genes and thus may be useful for in vivo gene therapy in hepatocytes. In vitro, primary cultures of rat hepatocytes infected with a recombinant Ad containing a human alpha 1-antitrypsin cDNA (Ad-alpha 1AT) synthesized and secreted human alpha 1AT for 4 weeks. In rats, in vivo intraportal administration of a recombinant Ad containing the E. coli lacZ gene, was followed by expression of beta-galactosidase in hepatocytes 3 days after infection. Intraportal infusion of Ad-alpha 1AT produced detectable serum levels of human alpha 1AT for 4 weeks. Thus, targeted gene expression has been achieved in the liver, albeit at low levels, suggesting that adenovirus vectors may be a useful means for in vivo gene therapy in liver disorders. 相似文献
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The gene encoding 5-lipoxygenase activating protein confers risk of myocardial infarction and stroke 总被引:29,自引:0,他引:29
Helgadottir A Manolescu A Thorleifsson G Gretarsdottir S Jonsdottir H Thorsteinsdottir U Samani NJ Gudmundsson G Grant SF Thorgeirsson G Sveinbjornsdottir S Valdimarsson EM Matthiasson SE Johannsson H Gudmundsdottir O Gurney ME Sainz J Thorhallsdottir M Andresdottir M Frigge ML Topol EJ Kong A Gudnason V Hakonarson H Gulcher JR Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2004,36(3):233-239
We mapped a gene predisposing to myocardial infarction to a locus on chromosome 13q12-13. A four-marker single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) haplotype in this locus spanning the gene ALOX5AP encoding 5-lipoxygenase activating protein (FLAP) is associated with a two times greater risk of myocardial infarction in Iceland. This haplotype also confers almost two times greater risk of stroke. Another ALOX5AP haplotype is associated with myocardial infarction in individuals from the UK. Stimulated neutrophils from individuals with myocardial infarction produce more leukotriene B4, a key product in the 5-lipoxygenase pathway, than do neutrophils from controls, and this difference is largely attributed to cells from males who carry the at-risk haplotype. We conclude that variants of ALOX5AP are involved in the pathogenesis of both myocardial infarction and stroke by increasing leukotriene production and inflammation in the arterial wall. 相似文献