In accordance with the patients’ immune status, the EBV-positive nasal NK/T-cell lymphomas analysed in the present study did not express LMP or EBNA2 corresponding to an EBV latency type I. In addition, miRNAs derived from the BHRF1-cluster were not found as the type I latency does not appear to support expression of these transcripts. Here, PDLIM7 is linked to T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.