In any case, it seems likely that one or both processes influences the transcription factor milieu and, accordingly, the specific consequences of SWI/SNF disruption (Roy et al., 2015; Sun et al., 2017). Regardless of the precise mechanism, the fact that Arid1a suppression can produce distinct phenotypes depending on the timing of gene suppression has ramifications for studying the SWI/SNF complex in other cancer types and, more generally, for cancer modeling in the mouse. The gene discussed is ARID1A; the disease is cancer.