The phrase "a partial duplication" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is not a complete copy but shares some similarities or elements with the original.
Example: "The report contained a partial duplication of the previous findings, which raised concerns about originality."
Alternatives: "a partial copy" or "a partial reproduction".
We adopted a partial duplication scheme where document replication targets only at hot objects in a website.
The recovery of water is a partial duplication of natural atmospheric convection processes because of the unstable environment lapse rate.
Other devices entail a partial duplication of effort or a division of tasks between two individuals to reduce the opportunity for unobserved thefts.
The C. chloropyga genes were in the same order and orientation as the mitochondrial genome of other dipteran species, except for the occurrence of a 123 bp region that included a complete duplication of tRNAIle and a partial duplication of tRNAGln genes.
Increased copy number for the POLgamma locus in a human cell line bearing a partial duplication of chromosome 15 increased the abundance of POLgammaCAT mRNA without up-regulation of mtDNA.
In addition, there is a 33,911 bp duplication (designated DR1 and DR2) and a partial duplication of the first 5,359 bp of DR1 (designated DR3).
Further evidence for instability is suggested by a variable partial duplication of clpP among populations of C. americanum.
DNA from proband S3, with a putative partial duplication by MLPA analysis, was not available in sufficient quantities for further tests.
We do not argue that absolutely every rearrangement was generated in one event indeed, a later partial duplication of the derivative chromosome is likely to explain why some samples (such as C32, Figure S2C) oscillate across three copy number states rather than two.
The considerable length differences are caused by an initial partial duplication and/or subsequent deletions.
To further confirm an identified partial duplication of PMP22, the commercially available Multiplex Ligation-dependant Probe Amplification kit P033-CMT11) was used.
