A recent study reported six genomic instability-associated lncRNAs (LINC02678, HOXA10-AS, RHOXF1-AS1, AC010789.1, LINC01150, and TGFB2-AS1) that were associated with gastric cancer prognosis and somatic mutations (Sun et al., 2021). This evidence concerns the gene TGFB2 and gastric cancer.