Additional Table 1 : List of local ethics committees that granted approval for the access and use of the data in current study Study Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR) (BCFR - addtional) (BCFR - addtional) (BCFR - addtional) (BCFR - addtional) (BCFR - addtional) Baltic Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer Consortium (BFBOCC) BRCA-gene mutations and beast cancer in South African women (BMBSA) Copenhagen Breast Cancer Study (CBCS) Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) Country USA Australia USA USA Canada Canada Latvia, Lithuania South Africa Denmark Spain, Greece CONsorzio Studi ITaliani sui Tumori Ereditari Alla Mammella (CONSIT TEAM) Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) Italy Germany (DKFZ - addtional) Columbia (DKFZ - addtional) Pakistan HEreditary Breast and Ovarian study Netherlands (HEBON) Epidemiological study of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers (EMBRACE) Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) The Netherlands UK and EIRE USA German Consortium of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (GC-HBOC) Germany Genetic Modifiers of cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (GEMO) Georgetown University (GEORGETOWN) France, USA USA Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) Hospital Clinico San Carlos (HCSC) USA Spain Helsinki Breast Cancer Study (HEBCS) Finland Hungarian Breast and Ovarian Cancer Study (HUNBOCS) Hungary Committee approval Institutional Review Board University of Utah The University of Melbnourne Health Sciences Human Ethics Sub-Committee Columbia University Medical Center Institutional Review Board Northern Californa Cancer Center Institutional Review Board University Health Network Research Ethics Board Mount Sinai Hospital Research Ethics Board Centrālā medicīnas ētikas Komiteja Univ. of Pretoria and Pretoria Academic Hospitals Ethics Committee De Videnskabsetiske Komiteer I Region Hovedsladen Instituto de Salud Carlos III Comité de Bioética y Bienestar Animal Comitato Etico Indipendente della Fondazione IRCCS "Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori" Ethik-Kommission des Klinikums der Universität Hospital Universitario de San Ignacio Comité de Investigaciones y Etica Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre Institutional Review Board Protocol Toetsingscommissie van het Nederlands Kanker Instituut/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis Anglia & Oxford MREC Institutional Review Board Fox Chase Cancer Center Ethik-Kommission der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universät zu Köln Comité consultatif sur le traitement de I'information en matière de recherche dans le domaine de la santé MedStar Research Institute - Georgetown University Oncology Institutional Review Board National Cancer Institute - Cancer Prevention and Control Concept Review Committee Comité Ético de Investigación Clínia Hospital Clínico San Carlos Helsingin ja uudenmaan sairaanhoitopiiri (Helsinki University Central Hospital ethics committee) Institutional Review Board of the Hungarian National Institute of Oncology Univeristy Hospital Vall d'Hebron (HVH) Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) International Hereditary Cancer Centre (IHCC) Iceland Landspitali - University Hospital (ILUH) Interdisciplinary Health Research International Team Breast Cancer Susceptibility (INHERIT) Istituto Oncologico Veneto Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Study (IOVHBOCS) Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (KCONFAB) (KCONFAB - additional) Mayo Clinic (MAYO) Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) (MSKCC - additional) General Hospital Vienna (MUV) National Cancer Institute (NCI) Ontario Cancer Genetics Network (OCGN) The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Centre (OSU-CCG) Odense University Hospital (OUH) Swedish Breast Cancer Study (SWE-BRCA) N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology (NNPIO) University of California Irvine (UCI, now BRICOH) University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) University of California San Francisco (UCSF) UK and Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registries (UKGRFOCR) (UKGRFOCR - additional) University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) Women’s Cancer Research Institute (WCRI) Spain Spain Poland Iceland Quebec -Canada Italy Australia Australia USA USA USA Austria USA Canada USA Denmark Sweden Russia USA USA USA UK USA USA USA The Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron Clinical Research Ethics Committee Catalan Institute of Oncology Institutional Review Board Komisji Bioetycznej Pomorskiej Akademii Medycznej (Pomeranian Medical University Bioethics Committee) Vísindasiđanefnd National Boethics Committee Comité d'éthique de la recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec Centro Oncologico Regionale Azienda Ospedale Di Padova Comitato Etico Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Ethics Committee Queensland Institute of Medical Research - Human Research Ethics Committee Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Boards Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center IRB Human Biospecimen Utilization Committee Ethikkommission der Medizinischen Universität Wien NIH Ethics Office Mount Sinai Hospital Research Ethics Board Cancer Institutional Review Board Den Videnskabsetiske Komité for Region Syddanmark Regionala Etikprövningsnämnden Stockholm N.N. Petrov Institional Ethical Committee UC Irvine: Office of Research Administration Institutional Review Board UCLA Institutional Review Board Committee on Human Research Cambridge Local Research Ethics Committee Roswell Park Cancer Institute IRB University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board Cedars-Sinai Institutional Review Board