According to available information on cancer staging, the most (> 95%) pathological tumor type in these two studies was nonkeratinizing carcinoma, and the levels of EBNA1/IgA were clearly higher in patients with NPC than in controls (65.3% vs. 20.0% in the case–control study and 53.3% vs. 4.2% in the nested case–control study). The gene discussed is CD79A; the disease is carcinoma.