Cancer cells often exhibit a change in number of copies of certain genomic regions when compared to normal cells (Copy Number Alterations: CNAs). Some of these CNAs may have a direct influence on the expression of genes in the affected region. The change in the number of copies of a gene may be both positive, when additional copies are gained (and the genes thus amplified) or negative, when one or more alleles of the gene are lost. The influence of CNAs on the expression of these amplified or lost genes depends on whether it occurs hetero- or homozygously and also on other regulatory factors which may override the effect of the alteration. Therefore, an essential step to verify the importance of the amplification or deletion of a given gene in the tumorigenic process is to verify if its expression tends to respond to its genomic alterations.