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John W. King

Professor of Oceanography University of Rhode Island
Verified email at uri.edu
Cited by 17183

Interleukin-28B polymorphism improves viral kinetics and is the strongest pretreatment predictor of sustained virologic response in genotype 1 hepatitis C virus

…, GW Galler, WM Lee, R Reindollar, JW King… - Gastroenterology, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: We recently identified a polymorphism upstream of interleukin (IL)-28B
to be associated with a 2-fold difference in sustained virologic response (SVR) rates to …

East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

…, TC Johnson, AS Cohen, JW King… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
The environmental backdrop to the evolution and spread of early Homo sapiens in East
Africa is known mainly from isolated outcrops and distant marine sediment cores. Here we …

Atlantic forcing of persistent drought in West Africa

…, JE Cole, DL Dettman, JA Peck, CA Scholz, JW King - science, 2009 - science.org
Although persistent drought in West Africa is well documented from the instrumental record
and has been primarily attributed to changing Atlantic sea surface temperatures, little is …

A new rock‐magnetic approach to selecting sediments for geomagnetic paleointensity studies: Application to paleointensity for the last 4000 years

JW King, SK Banerjee, J Marvin - Journal of Geophysical …, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
The hypothesis that the ratio of detrital remanent magnetization to anhysteretic remanent
magnetization (DRM/ARM) for sediment samples is a measure of relative geomagnetic …

Controlled Biomineralization of Magnetite (Fe (inf3) O (inf4)) and Greigite (Fe (inf3) S (inf4)) in a Magnetotactic Bacterium

…, BR Heywood, S Mann, JW King… - Applied and …, 1995 - Am Soc Microbiol
A slowly moving, rod-shaped magnetotactic bacterium was found in relatively large numbers
at and below the oxic-anoxic transition zone of a semianaerobic estuarine basin. Unlike all …

Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa

…, CA Scholz, TC Johnson, JW King… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Extremely arid conditions in tropical Africa occurred in several discrete episodes between
135 and 90 ka, as demonstrated by lake core and seismic records from multiple basins [Scholz …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmapheresis in the treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

RM Bukowski, JW King, JS Hewlett - Blood, 1977 - Elsevier
Two patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) have recovered completely
after intensive plasmapheresis. The mechanisms responsible for the improvement in these …

Accretion of a New England (USA) salt marsh in response to inlet migration, storms, and sea-level rise

CT Roman, JA Peck, JR Allen, JW King… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 1997 - Elsevier
Sediment accumulation rates were determined at several sites throughout Nauset Marsh (Massachusetts,
USA), a back-barrier lagoonal system, using feldspar marker horizons to …

Glacial forcing of central Indonesian hydroclimate since 60,000 y BP

…, N Wattrus, K Costa, JW King - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The Indo-Pacific warm pool houses the largest zone of deep atmospheric convection on
Earth and plays a critical role in global climate variations. Despite the region’s importance, …

Paleoclimatic variations in West Africa from a record of late Pleistocene and Holocene lake level stands of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

…, MR Talbot, CA Scholz, J Peck, JW King - Palaeogeography …, 2006 - Elsevier
A detailed investigation of geomorphological evidence of paleoshorelines and exposed
stratigraphic sections of lake deposits, combined with a chronology based on radiocarbon dated …