About the Authors

Galina Lurie

GLurie@crch.hawaii.edu

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Lynne R. Wilkens

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Pamela J. Thompson

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Yurii B. Shvetsov

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Rayna K. Matsuno

Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael E. Carney

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Rachel T. Palmieri

Affiliation Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Anna H. Wu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Malcolm C. Pike

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Celeste L. Pearce

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Usha Menon

Affiliation Department of Gynecological Oncology, University College London EGA Institute for Women's Health, London, United Kingdom

Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj

Affiliation Department of Gynecological Oncology, University College London EGA Institute for Women's Health, London, United Kingdom

Simon A. Gayther

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Susan J. Ramus

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alice S. Whittemore

Affiliation Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Valerie McGuire

Affiliation Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Weiva Sieh

Affiliation Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Paul D. P. Pharoah

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Honglin Song

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jacek Gronwald

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Anna Jakubowska

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Cezary Cybulski

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Jan Lubinski

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Joellen M. Schildkraut

Affiliation Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrew Berchuck

Affiliation Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Susanne Krüger Kjær

Affiliations Department of Viruses, Hormones and Cancer, Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark, Gynecologic Clinic, The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Estrid Høgdall

Affiliation Department of Viruses, Hormones and Cancer, Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter A. Fasching

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Matthias W. Beckmann

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Arif B. Ekici

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Alexander Hein

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Georgia Chenevix-Trench

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Population Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia

Penelope M. Webb

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Population Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia

Jonathan Beesley

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Population Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia

The Australian Ovarian Cancer Study and Australian Cancer Study Groups

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia and Peter MacCallum Cancer Study, Melbourne, Australia

Marc T. Goodman

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

The Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTG GL PJT LRW YBS RKM MEC. Performed the experiments: MTG GL PJT AHW MCP CLP UM AGM SAG SJR ASW PDPP VM WS HS JG AJ CC JL JMS AB RTP SKK EH PAF MWB ABE AH GCT PMW JB. Analyzed the data: GL LRW MTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTG MEC AHW UM AGM CLP SAG SJR ASW PDPP JG AJ CC JL JMS SKK EH PAF MWB ABE AH GCT PNW. Wrote the paper: GL MTG LRW.