About the Authors

Jonathan Beesley

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Beesley, Hilda A. Pickett

jonathan.beesley@qimr.edu.au

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

Hilda A. Pickett

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Beesley, Hilda A. Pickett

Affiliations Cancer Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sharon E. Johnatty

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

Alison M. Dunning

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Xiaoqing Chen

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

Jun Li

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

Kyriaki Michailidou

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Yi Lu

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

David N. Rider

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, 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

Michael D. Stutz

Affiliations Cancer Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Diether Lambrechts

Affiliations Vesalius Research Center, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Vesalius Research Center, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Evelyn Despierre

Affiliation Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Sandrina Lambrechts

Affiliation Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Ignace Vergote

Affiliation Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jenny Chang-Claude

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Stefan Nickels

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Alina Vrieling

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Dieter Flesch-Janys

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Shan Wang-Gohrke

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Ursula Eilber

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Natalia Bogdanova

Affiliations Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Byelorussian Institute for Oncology and Medical Radiology Aleksandrov N.N., Minsk, Belarus, Clinics of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Natalia Antonenkova

Affiliation Byelorussian Institute for Oncology and Medical Radiology Aleksandrov N.N., Minsk, Belarus

Ingo B. Runnebaum

Affiliation Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Thilo Dörk

Affiliation Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Marc T. Goodman

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

Galina Lurie

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

Rayna K. Matsuno

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

Lambertus A. Kiemeney

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Katja K. H. Aben

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Tamara Marees

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Leon F. A. G. Massuger

Affiliation Department of Gynaecology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Brooke L. Fridley

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Robert A. Vierkant

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Elisa V. Bandera

Affiliation The Cancer Institute of New Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Sara H. Olson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Irene Orlow

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Lorna Rodriguez-Rodriguez

Affiliation The Cancer Institute of New Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Linda S. Cook

Affiliation Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Nhu D. Le

Affiliation Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Angela Brooks-Wilson

Affiliation Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Linda E. Kelemen

Affiliation Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ian Campbell

Affiliation Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Simon A. Gayther

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

Susan J. Ramus

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

Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj

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

Usha Menon

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

Shahana Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Caroline Baynes

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul D. Pharoah

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

kConFab Investigators

Affiliation Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Population Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Gynaecological Oncology and Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at the Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

ABCTB Investigators

Affiliation Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney Medical School, Westmead, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kenneth Muir

Affiliation Health Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Artitaya Lophatananon

Affiliation Health Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Arkom Chaiwerawattana

Affiliation Department of Academic Support, The National Cancer Institute of Thailand, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Surapon Wiangnon

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Stuart Macgregor

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

Douglas F. Easton

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Roger R. Reddel

Affiliations Cancer Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ellen L. Goode

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Georgia Chenevix-Trench

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

on behalf of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC-T RRR ELG DNR. Performed the experiments: JB HAP XC MDS SA CB. Analyzed the data: JB HAP SEJ JL KM SM YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RTP DL ED SL IV JC-C SN AV DF-J MTG GL LRW RKM NB NA IBR TD BLF RAV ELG EVB SHO IO LR-R LEK NDL LSC AB-W IC SAG SJR AG-M UM PDP AMD SW-G UE KM AL AC SW DFE RRR GC-T LAK KKHA TM LFAGM. Wrote the paper: JB HAP GC-T.