About the Authors

Lars O. Baumbusch

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars O. Baumbusch, Åslaug Helland

lars.o.baumbusch@rr-research.no

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Åslaug Helland

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars O. Baumbusch, Åslaug Helland

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Yun Wang

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Knut Liestøl

Affiliations Biomedical Informatics Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Marci E. Schaner

Affiliation School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Ruth Holm

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Dariush Etemadmoghadam

Affiliations Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kathryn Alsop

Affiliations Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pat Brown

Affiliation School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group

Membership of the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group is listed at www.aocstudy.org/org_coll.asp.

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

Gillian Mitchell

Affiliations Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sian Fereday

Affiliation Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Anna DeFazio

Affiliation Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney at Westmead Millennium Institute and Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

David D. L. Bowtell

Affiliations Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Gunnar B. Kristensen

Affiliations Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Institute for Medical Informatics, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Ole Christian Lingjærde

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Biomedical Informatics Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Acquisition and provision of the pathologic and clinical data of the Oslo cohort: RH GK. Acquisition and provision of the genomic and clinical data of the Australian cohort: DE AD SF AOCSG DB. Acquisition and analysis of the BRCA mutation status in the AOCS BRCA genotyping project: KA GM. Revised the manuscript critically: DB AD GM ALBD. Conceived and designed the experiments: ALBD. Performed the experiments: YW MS KA. Analyzed the data: OCL LOB KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH GK DE AD SF AOCSG DB KA GM PB OCL. Wrote the paper: LOB KL ÅH YW OCL.