It has recently been suggested that brain tumor stem cells may be derived from neural stem cells (Sanai et al., 2005) and methylation levels of CpG loci near CBX2 were found to be higher in the tumor tissues of long-term survivors than in those of short-term survivors of glioblastoma (Zhang et al., 2013), suggesting that CBX2 may be upregulated and potentially have a stimulating effect on the progression of glioma. The gene discussed is CBX2; the disease is neoplasm.