BCL2L10 and gastric cancer: Furthermore, BCL2L10 (B cell lymphoma 2 like 10) located on chromosome 15 was selected because it bears the highest methylation score (73%) on this chromosome, it is implicated in apoptosis, it was previously described as hypermethylated in gastric cancer cell lines (Mikata et al., 2010), and associated with poor prognosis in gastric cancer patients (Xu et al., 2011; Voso et al., 2011).