We honed in on the latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) oncogene because it has a well-established role in EBV-driven carcinogenesis and other aspects of their cancer biology such as immunosurveillance (16, 37, 38), and has been shown to harbor polymorphisms which may confer a degree of epitheliotropic predilection in EBV strains associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (4, 8, 9). The gene discussed is PDLIM7; the disease is nasopharyngeal carcinoma.