PDLIM7 and lymphoma: These results observed in epithelial cells are certainly very much relevant to the development of EBV-associated lymphomas as well, because latent EBV infection apparently results in hypermethylation of a set of cellular promoters not only in nasopharyngeal carcinoma86 and EBV-associated gastric carcinoma87,88, but also in typically LMP1 positive Hodgkin lymphomas89,90,91, iatrogenic lymphomas92, and lymphomas developing in AIDS patients93.