Further analyses showed that high Brg1 protein level was positively associated with vascular invasion, lymph node metastasis and distant metastasis (Fig. 3e, Supplementary Figure 5d and Supplementary Table 2), as well as relatively shorter survival time of the gastric cancer patients (Fig. 3f). Here, SMARCA4 is linked to metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.