Breast and Prostate Cancer and Hormone-Related Gene Variant Study

Organizational Structure

To achieve the goals of the consortium, several working groups have been created that coordinate the efforts within and across the participating cohorts and scientific disciplines. These structures are:

• Steering Committee: The Steering Committee includes the four principal investigators for the cooperative agreements that fund participation of the cohorts in the BCP3 Study, the principal investigators of the cohorts themselves (which are funded independent of this study), and NCI Program staff as Ex Officio members. The Steering Committee coordinates the activities of the research components, decides on a timeline for specific subcomponents of the study (e.g., the order in which groups of genes are genotyped), coordinates pooling of data, and distributes parts of the pooled data analyses to BCP3 Study members.
• Secretariat: Drs. David Hunter and Elio Riboli were elected co-chairs of the Steering Committee and serve as the Secretariat responsible for coordinating meetings, conference calls, and communications with NCI.
• Shared resources:
  • Population Genetics Working Group
  • Haplotype Determination Laboratories
  • Genotyping Working Group
  • Statistics Working Group
  • Data Pooling Working Group
  • Publications Working Group
  • Community Web Site Working Group