PRKAR1A and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: MIF and PTTG1 up-regulated in NPC (oncogenes) were on 19p13.3 and 5q35.1 respectively and PRKAR1A and PDCD4 down-regulated in NPC (tumor suppressors) were mapped to chromosome 17q22-q24 and 10q24 respectively, but no corresponding high frequency of chromosomal alterations in those region have been reported in association with NPC.