**Partial Gene Duplication and the Formation of Novel Genes**

Macarena Toll-Riera1, Steve Laurie1, Núria Radó-Trilla1 and M.Mar Albà1,2 *1Evolutionary Genomics Group, Biomedical Informatics Programme, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM) 2Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona Spain* 
