A negative correlation was found between VSTM2L and CIMP, and a CIMP-related gene signature comprising six genes (VSTM2L, CST6, SLC7A2, RAB3B, IGFBP1, and EVX2) stratified gastric cancer patients into high‐ and low-risk groups with distinct prognoses (Zeng et al., 2020). Here, SLC7A2 is linked to gastric cancer.