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. 2021 Mar 2;181(1):3–12. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfab022

Table 1.

Environmental Factors Affecting Classic Mendelian Disease Presentations

Disease Environmental risk factor Reference
Cystic fibrosis

Pathogenic microorganisms

Tobacco smoking

E-cigarette vaping

Air pollution

Dietary factors

Temperature

Wolfenden and Schechter (2009), Collaco et al. (2010), Collaco et al. (2011), Schindler et al. (2015), Garcia-Arcos et al. (2016), Ong et al. (2017), Brugha et al. (2018), Hooper and Kaufman (2018), Gotts et al. (2019)
Huntington disease

Housing conditions

Environmental stimulations

Physical activity

Stress

Caloric restrictions

Dietary factors

Manganese bioavailability

Williams et al. (2010), Mazarakis et al. (2014), Mo et al. (2015), Bichell et al. (2017), Bryan et al. (2019), Bryan et al. (2020), Pfalzer et al. (2020)
Parkinson’s disease

Tobacco smoking

Coffee/tea

Dietary factors

β2-adrenoreceptor agonists/antagonists

Physical activity

Vitamin E

Gout

NSAIDs

Manganese

Copper

Pesticides

Chen et al. (2015), Ascherio and Schwarzschild (2016), Brouwer et al. (2017), Hughes et al. (2017), Simon et al. (2017), Cao et al. (2019), Kochmanski et al. (2019), Belvisi et al. (2020)
Sickle cell disease

Climate-related factors (temperature, humidity, high altitudes, etc.)

Air pollution

Tobacco smoking

Physical exercise

SES-related factors

Dietary factors

Hyacinth et al. (2010), Tewari et al. (2015), Piel et al. (2017a,b), Yarboi et al. (2017), Crouch et al. (2018), Martin et al. (2018), Parriault et al. (2019), Xu and Frenette (2019), Bills et al. (2020), Blumberg et al. (2020), Karlson et al. (2020), Wachnian et al. (2020)