Study-specific acknowledgments:
We acknowledge the EMBRACE Centres; the Coordinating Centre: University of Cambridge and the Collaborating Centres; Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London; Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester: Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds; The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton; Birmingham Women’s Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, Birmingham; South Glasgow University Hospitals, Glasgow; Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge; St. Georges, London Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter; Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton; Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield; Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle; Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London; Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol; Belfast City Hospital, Belfast; Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham; University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff; Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool; Kennedy Galton Centre, Harrow; Trinity College Dublin and St James’s Hospital, Dublin; University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester; NHS Grampian & University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen; Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl; and Singleton Hospital, Swansea. We also wish to thank Steve Ellis (data manager on the EMBRACE study 2010-2014).
BCFR thanks the members and participants in the Breast Cancer Family Registry from the New York, Northern California, Ontario, Philadelphia, Utah, and Australia sites for their contributions to the study.
CNIO thanks the staff for their assistance.
We acknowledge the GENEPSO Centers: the Coordinating Center: Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France: Catherine Noguès, Lilian Laborde, Emmanuel Breysse who contributed by centralising, managing the data, and organising BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers follow-up and the Collaborating Centers which contributed to the mutation carriers recruitment and follow-up: Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, PhD, MD, Institut Curie, Paris; Marion Gauthier-Villars, MD, Institut Curie, Paris; Bruno Buecher, MD, Institut Curie, Paris; Olivier Caron, MD, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif; Emmanuelle Fourme-Mouret, MD, Hôpital René Huguenin/Institut Curie, Saint Cloud; Jean-Pierre Fricker, MD, Centre Paul Strauss, Strasbourg; Christine Lasset, MD, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Valérie Bonadona, PhD, MD, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon; Pascaline Berthet, MD, Centre François Baclesse, Caen; Laurence Faivre, MD, Hôpital d’Enfants CHU and Centre Georges François Leclerc, Dijon; Elisabeth Luporsi, PhD, MD, CHR Metz-Thionville, Hôpital de Mercy, Metz, France; Véronique Mari, MD, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice; Laurence Gladieff, MD, Institut Claudius Regaud, Toulouse; Paul Gesta, MD, Réseau Oncogénétique Poitou Charente, Niort; Hagay Sobol, PhD, MD, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille; François Eisinger, MD, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille; Catherine Noguès,MD, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille; Michel Longy, PhD, MD Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux; Catherine Dugast†, MD, Centre Eugène Marquis, Rennes;Chrystelle Colas, MD, GH Pitié Salpétrière, Paris; Isabelle Coupier, MD, CHU Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier; Pascal Pujol, MD, CHU Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier; Carole Corsini, MD, CHU Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier; Alain Lortholary, MD, Centres Paul Papin, and Catherine de Sienne, Angers, Nantes; Philippe Vennin†,MD, Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille; Claude Adenis, MD, Centre Oscar Lambret, Lille; Tan Dat Nguyen, MD, Institut Jean Godinot, Reims; Capucine Delnatte, MD, Centre René Gauducheau, Nantes; Julie Tinat, MD, Centre Henri Becquerel, Rouen; Isabelle Tennevet, MD, Centre Henri Becquerel, Rouen; Jean-Marc Limacher, MD, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg; Christine Maugard, PhD, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg; Yves-Jean Bignon, MD, Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont-Ferrand; Liliane Demange†, MD, Polyclinique Courlancy, Reims; Clotilde Penet, MD, Polyclinique Courlancy, Reims; Hélène Dreyfus, MD, Clinique Sainte Catherine, Avignon; Odile Cohen-Haguenauer, MD, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris; Laurence Venat-Bouvet, MD, CHRU Dupuytren, Limoges; Dominique Leroux, MD, Couple-Enfant-CHU de Grenoble; Hélène Dreyfus, MD, Couple-Enfant-CHU de Grenoble; Hélène Zattara-Cannoni, MD, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille; Sandra Fert-Ferrer, MD, Hôtel Dieu - Centre Hospitalier, Chambery; and Odile Bera, MD, CHU Fort de France, Fort de France. †Deceased.
HCSC acknowledge the staff for their technical assistance.
The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON) consists of the following Collaborating Centers: Netherlands Cancer Institute (coordinating centre), Amsterdam, NL: F.B.L. Hogervorst; Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL: J.M. Collée; Leiden University Medical Center, NL: C.J. van Asperen; Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, NL: A.R. Mensenkamp; University Medical Center Utrecht, NL: M.G.E.M. Ausems; Amsterdam Medical Center, NL: H.E.J. Meijers-Heijboer; VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, NL: K. van Engelen; Maastricht University Medical Center, NL: M.J. Blok; University of Groningen, NL: J.C. Oosterwijk; The Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL): J.Verloop; and the nationwide network and registry of histo- and cytopathology in The Netherlands (PALGA): E. van den Broek. HEBON thanks the study participants and the registration teams of IKNL and PALGA for part of the data collection.
INHERIT would like to thank the staff for the sample management and skilful assistance.
We thank Heather Thorne, Eveline Niedermayr and all the kConFab research nurses and staff, the heads and staff of the Family Cancer Clinics, and the many families who contribute to kConFab for their contributions to this resource.
Czech Republic, MMCI, Brno—for the data collection and management.
We wish to thank the Hungarian Breast and Ovarian Cancer Study Group members; the Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary; and the clinicians and patients for their contributions to this study.
Swedish scientists participating as SWE-BRCA collaborators from the Lund University and University Hospital and from Stockholm and Karolinska University Hospital.