PDLIM7 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Looking at a selected list of genes to further classify the EBV strain, we showed that NPC268 harbors the V-val subtype for EBNA1, and its LMP1 poses the 30 bp-deletion belonging to the China1 subtype, both of which are commonly associated with NPC in endemic regions (refs. 38–41; Table 1).