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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2022 Jan 15;819:153096. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153096

Table 2.

Airborne contaminants associated with increased ALS risk in both the discovery and validation cohorts.

Contaminant Discovery phase
Validation phase
p-Value OR (95% CI) FDR

Lead 0.0028 1.02 1.01–1.03 0.00077
Heptachlorobiphenyl 0.0039 1.01 1.01–1.02 3.60E-05
2, Chlorobiphenyl, PCB 1 2.00E-04 1.01 1.01–1.02 3.60E-05
Hexachlorobiphenyl 0.0039 1.01 1.01–1.02 3.60E-05
Pentachlorobiphenyl 0.0039 1.01 1.01–1.02 3.60E-05
2,4,4 Trichlorobiphenyl, PCB 28 2.00E-04 1.01 1.01–1.02 3.60E-05