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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a US Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Era of Hope Scholar Award to C.A.H. (W81XWH-08-1-0383), the Norris Foundation, the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Komen Foundation for the Cure, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and US National Institutes of Health grants CA128978, CA122340 and CA148065. Study specific acknowledgments are listed in the Supplementary Note.

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  1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Christopher A Haiman, Gary K Chen, Christopher K Edlund, Andrea Holbrook, Sue A Ingles, Loreall C Pooler, Fredrick Schumacher, Xin Sheng, David Van Den Berg, Peggy Wan, Lucy Y Xia, Daniel O Stram & Brian E Henderson
  2. Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
    Celine M Vachon, Timothy Lesnick, Curtis Olswold, Kristen N Stevens, Susan L Slager & Fergus J Couch
  3. Genomic Epidemiology Group, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
    Federico Canzian
  4. Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Strangeways Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, UK
    Alison Dunning, Shahana Ahmed, Paul D P Pharoah & Douglas Easton
  5. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Robert C Millikan & Sarah Nyante
  6. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
    Xianshu Wang & Fergus J Couch
  7. Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
    Foluso Ademuyiwa
  8. Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
    Christine B Ambrosone
  9. Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria & Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic, and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,
    Laura Baglietto, Graham G Giles & Gianluca Severi
  10. Department of Translational Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Western Sydney Local Health Network, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
    Rosemary Balleine
  11. The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
    Elisa V Bandera
  12. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
    Matthias W Beckmann & Peter A Fasching
  13. Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Christine D Berg
  14. Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Science, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, California, USA
    Leslie Bernstein
  15. Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
    Carl Blomqvist
  16. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    William J Blot, Sandra L Deming, Lisa B Signorello & Wei Zheng
  17. International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
    William J Blot & Lisa B Signorello
  18. Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
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  19. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
    Hiltrud Brauch
  20. Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Julie E Buring & Daniel I Chasman
  21. Department of Medicine, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Lisa A Carey
  22. Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank, University of Sydney at the Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
    Jane E Carpenter & Christine L Clarke
  23. Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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  24. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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  25. Department of Oncology, Institute for Cancer Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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  26. Department of Neuroscience, Academic Unit of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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  27. Department of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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  29. Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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  30. Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
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  32. Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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  33. Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Peter A Fasching
  34. Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
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  35. Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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  38. Center for Primary Health Care Research, University of Lund, Malmö, Sweden
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    Dario Greco & Heli Nevanlinna
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  45. Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
    Arndt Hartmann & Rüdiger Schulz-Wendtland
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  47. Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    David J Hunter, Sara Lindstrom & Peter Kraft
  48. Human Genetics Division, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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  49. Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California
    Esther M John
  50. Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford, California, USA
    Esther M John
  51. Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
    Nicola Johnson
  52. Department of Oncology, Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen
  53. Division of Cancer Epidemiology, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
    Rudolf Kaaks
  54. Department of Internal Medicine, Evangelische Kliniken Johanniter- und Waldkrankenhaus Bonn gGmbH, Bonn, Germany
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  55. Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    Laurence N Kolonel & Loïc Le Marchand
  56. Department of Pathology, Imaging Centre, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
    Veli-Matti Kosma
  57. Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
    Swati Kulkarni
  58. Vesalius Research Center, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Leuven, Belgium
    Diether Lambrechts & Els Wauters
  59. Vesalius Research Center, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
    Diether Lambrechts & Els Wauters
  60. Department of Pathology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland Biocenter Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
    Arto Mannermaa
  61. Department of Pathology, Imaging Centre, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
    Arto Mannermaa
  62. Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    Sara Margolin
  63. Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) Genome-Wide Association Study Collective, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Nicholas G Martin & Grant W Montgomery
  64. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Penelope Miron
  65. Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Julie Palmer & Lynn Rosenberg
  66. Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  67. Department of Internal Medicine, Oncology Section, “Hippokration” Hospital, Athens, Greece
    Dimitrios Pectasides
  68. Departments of Genetics and Pathology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Charles M Perou
  69. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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  70. Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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  74. Institute of Pathology, Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
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  75. National Institute for Health Research Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's & St. Thomas' National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK
    Elinor Sawyer
  76. Division of Experimental Therapy and Molecular Pathology and Division of Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute–Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Marjanka K Schmidt
  77. Department of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    Hans-Peter Sinn
  78. Department of Pathology, Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Melissa C Southey
  79. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Ian Tomlinson
  80. Family Cancer Clinic, Netherlands Cancer Institut–Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Frans B L Hogervorst
  81. Multidisciplinary Breast Center, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
    Hans Wildiers
  82. Imperial College, London, UK
    Afshan Siddiq
  83. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Conceived of and designed the experiments: C.A.H. and F.J.C. Performed the experiments and analyzed the data: C.A.H., L.C.P., D.V.D.B., X.S., G.K.C., A. Holbrook, P.W., F.C., D.O.S., X.W., T.L., C.O., K.N.S., A.M.L., L.Y.X., S.L.S. and C.M.V. Contributed reagents, materials, analysis tools or comments on the manuscript: C.A.H., C.M.V., A.D., R.C.M., X.W., F.A., S.A., C.B.A., L. Baglietto, R.B., E.V.B., M.W.B., C.D.B., L. Bernstein, C.B., W.J.B., H.B., J.E.B., L.A.C., J.E.C., J.C.-C., S.J.C., D.I.C., C.L.C., A.C., S.S.C., S.L.D., R.B.D., A.M.D., W.R.D., T.D., L.D., D.E., C.K.E., A.B.E., P.A.F., H.S.F., D.F.-J., F.F., A.F., G.F., S.M.G., G.G.G., A.K.G., P.G., N.G., D.G., U.H., S.E.H., A. Hartmann, R.H., J.H., R.N.H., J.J.H., D.J.H., S.A.I., A.I., J.I., E.M.J., N.J., A.J.-V., R.K., Y.-D.K., L.N.K., I.K., V.-M.K., S.K., D.L., A.M.L., L.L.M., T.L., J.L., S.L., A.M., S.M., N.G.M., P.M., G.W.M., H.N., S. Nickels, S. Nyante, C.O., J. Palmer, H.P., D.P., C.M.P., J. Peto, P.D.P.P., L.C.P., M.F.P., K.P., T.R.R., J.L.R.-G., L.R., E.R., T.R., I.d.S.S., E.S., M.K.S., R.S.-W., F.S., G.S., X.S., L.B.S., H.-P.S., K.N.S., M.C.S., W.J.T., I.T., F.B.L.H., E.W., J.W., H.W., R.W., D.Y., W.Z., R.G.Z., A.S., S.L.S., D.O.S., D.E., P.K., B.E.H. and F.J.C. Wrote the paper: C.A.H. and F.J.C.

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Haiman, C., Chen, G., Vachon, C. et al. A common variant at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus is associated with estrogen receptor–negative breast cancer.Nat Genet 43, 1210–1214 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.985

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