About the Authors

Gurinder Singh Atwal

Contributed equally to this work with: Gurinder Singh Atwal, Gareth L. Bond

Affiliation The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Raúl Rabadán

Affiliation The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Guillermina Lozano

Affiliation The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Louise C. Strong

Affiliation The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mariëlle W. G. Ruijs

Affiliations Family Cancer Clinic, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Genetics and Human Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marjanka K. Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Laura J. van't Veer

Affiliation Family Cancer Clinic, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Heli Nevanlinna

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Johanna Tommiska

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Kristiina Aittomäki

Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Gaelle Bougeard

Affiliation Inserm U614 and Department of Genetics, Rouen University Hospital, Institute for Biomedical Research, Rouen, France

Thierry Frebourg

Affiliation Inserm U614 and Department of Genetics, Rouen University Hospital, Institute for Biomedical Research, Rouen, France

Arnold J. Levine

Affiliations The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Gareth L. Bond

Contributed equally to this work with: Gurinder Singh Atwal, Gareth L. Bond

gareth.bond@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Current address: The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Old Road Campus Research Building Division (ORCRB), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL GB GA. Performed the experiments: GL Lv LS HN GB GA MR MS JT KA GB TF. Analyzed the data: GB GA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL Lv LS RR HN GB GA MR MS JT KA GB TF. Wrote the paper: AL GB GA.