AIM: To clone and identify genes differentially expressed in the EBvirus-transformed human B cell. METHODS: Suppression subtractive hy-bridization was used to construct the library which contains the differentiatelyexpressed cDNAs in EB virus-transformed human B cell. Then the isolatedgenes were cloned and sequenced and identifed by RT-PCR. Nucleic acid ho-mology searches were performed using the BLAST program. RESULTS: By thistechnique, 4 differentiately expressed gene cDNA fragments of EBvirus-transformed human B cell were obtained. CONCLUSION: SSH is aneffective method to isolate differentiately expressed genes.