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In addition to frequent genetic mutations, malignant plasma cells are characterized by alterations to the epigenome. Myeloma cells display a genome-wide loss of DNA methylation and a corresponding increase in \u2018active\u2019 chromatin modifications. The dramatic epigenetic remodeling that occurs in cancer genomes is associated with loss of silencing at transposable elements, which can impact genome regulation. Through paired epigenome and transcriptome profiling of patient derived MM samples, we have found that loss of DNA methylation in MM genomes results in the formation of partially methylated domains that are variable across patients. This loss of DNA methylation coincides with the expression of hundreds of transcripts driven by LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposons that are epigenetically silenced in normal cells. MM samples can be stratified based on L1 activity with distinct gene expression signatures. 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