First, the V-val, del-LMP1 and China 1 were also dominant in healthy/non-malignant donors and non-NPC tumors (72.0%, 78.1% and 72.5% respectively) [13, 14, 19, 20, 41, 53–56] in endemic area although they were highly prevalent in NPC cases (100%, 91.5% and 89.5% respectively) [12–14, 20, 51, 53, 55–57]. Here, PDLIM7 is linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma.