... reconstruct the most likely tumor line-age and to infer, simultaneously, the copy number profiles of the intermediate nodes. In other words, wewant to reconstruct the copy number profiles of the common ... Biology 2010, 11:R76http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/7/R76Page 9 of 19METH O D Open Access Analysis of the copy number profiles of several tumor samples from the same patient reveals the successive ... parts of the organ, or di fferent parts of the body. Analysis of the copy number profiles of metastases in the data set from the study by Liu et al. [19] revealed the relationshipsbetween the metastases...