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Celine M Vachon1, V Shane Pankratz2, Christopher G Scott2

  • 1Affiliations of authors: Department of Health Sciences Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic (CMV, VSP, CGS, MRJ, JEO, ADN, FJC); Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany (LH, KH, CCH, SMJ, MWB, PAF); Department of Medicine, Institute for Human Genetics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA (EZ); Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics and General Internal Medicine Section, Department of Veterans Affairs and Division of General Internal Medicine (EZ, JAT, KK); Division of Breast Imaging, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN (KRB, DHW); Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany (RS-W); Division of Experimental Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN (JMC, FJC); Wayne State University School of Medicine and Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI (KSP); University of Cambridge, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Cambridge, UK (DFE); Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida (TAS); University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Medicine, Division Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA (PAF). vachon.celine@mayo.edu.

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