Erratum to: Breast Cancer Res Treat DOI 10.1007/s10549-009-0490-2

Unfortunately affiliations of all authors/consortium members and information on the writing group have been missed out in the original publication; they are given below.

Consortium members include:

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany: Sascha Abbas, Jenny Chang-Claude, Rebecca Hein, Silke Kropp, Margie Pathimos (Division of Cancer Epidemiology); Thomas Dünnebier, Ute Hamann (Research Group on Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer); Roland Eils, Benedikt Brors, Marc Zapatka (Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics).

Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, and University of Tübingen, Germany: Hiltrud Brauch, Christina Justenhoven.

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany: Dieter Flesch-Janys (Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Center of Experimental Medicine); Wilhelm Braendle (Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Center for Gynecology, Obstetrics and Paediatrics).

BGFA-Research Institute of Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany: Thomas Brüning, Beate Pesch, Anne Spickenheuer.

Evangelische Kliniken Bonn gGmbH, Johanniter Krankenhaus, Bonn, Germany: Christian Baisch, Yon-Dschun Ko (Department of Internal Medicine)

Congenics AG, Hamburg, Germany: Norbert Dahmen.

The writing group included (in alphabetic order):

Sascha Abbas, Hiltrud Brauch, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas Dünnebier, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Ute Hamann, Rebecca Hein, Christina Justenhoven.