AATK/miR-1250 methylation was detected in 41 (44.09%) B-cell NHL and 9 (33.33%) T-cell NHL cases (Table 2; Fig. 3a, b), hence AATK/miR-1250 were frequently hypermethylated in both B-cell and T-cell NHL with a comparable frequency (P = 0.318). Here, AATK is linked to B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.