Transcriptomic analyses reveal that deletion of Mll3 or Mll4 causes a remarkable increase in the level of bidirectional ERVs transcripts (Fig. 3k and Supplementary Fig. 3k), which may contribute to the accumulation of cytosolic dsRNAs in Mll4−/− B16 tumor cells and human cancer cells depleted for MLL4 expression as demonstrated by immunofluorescent staining using a dsRNAs-specific J2 antibody (Fig. 3l and Supplementary Fig. 3l, m). This evidence concerns the gene KMT2C and cancer.