Long-Term Exposure to Ultrafine Particles and Particulate Matter Constituents and the Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Zhebin Yu, Susan Peters, Loes van Boxmeer, George S. Downward, Gerard Hoek, Marianthi‐Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Marc G. Weisskopf, Johnni Hansen, Leonard H. van den Berg, Roel Vermeulen
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Funding Information: This case–control study was funded by the ALS Foundation Netherlands; Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds; the European Community’s Health Seventh Framework Programme (grant agreements 259867 and 211250); Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) under the frame of E-Rare-2, the European Research Area Network on Rare Diseases; EU Joint Programme Neurodegenerative Disease Research project [Sampling and biomarker OPtimization and Harmonization In ALS and other motor neuron diseases (SOPHIA) and Survival, Trigger and Risk, Epigenetic, eNvironmental and Genetic Targets for motor neuron Health (STRENGTH) projects]; and the ZonMW Vici scheme to L. v.d.B. Z.Y. was supported by a scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council. M.-A.K. was supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Science (R21 ES028472 and R01 ES028805).