About the Authors

Florence Le Calvez-Kelm

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Javier Oliver

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Francesca Damiola

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Nathalie Forey

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Nivonirina Robinot

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Geoffroy Durand

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Catherine Voegele

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Maxime P. Vallée

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Graham Byrnes

Affiliation Biostatistics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Breast Cancer Family Registry

Affiliations Center for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytical Epidemiology, School of Population Health, EGA The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Molecular Genetics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California, United States of America, Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America

John L. Hopper

Affiliation Center for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytical Epidemiology, School of Population Health, EGA The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melissa C. Southey

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Irene L. Andrulis

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Esther M. John

Affiliations Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California, United States of America, Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sean V. Tavtigian

Affiliation Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Fabienne Lesueur

lesueurf@iarc.fr

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FLCK FL SVT. Performed the experiments: FLCK JO FD NF NR GD. Analyzed the data: FL SVT JO GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV MV JLH MCS ILA EMJ. Wrote the paper: FLCK FL SVT.