TY - JOUR
T1 - A morphometric study of the human mandible in the Indian population for sex determination
AU - Sharma, Maneesha
AU - Gorea, R. K.
AU - Gorea, Arshdeep
AU - Abuderman, Abdulwahab
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The International Association of Law and Forensic Sciences (IALFS).
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Sex determination from bones is important in forensic investigations for establishing identity in cases of mutilated bodies. Many morphometric criteria have been laid down for various bones for sex determination in previous studies. The present study aimed at setting up some parameters of the mandible as indicators of sex in the Indian population. The length of body of the mandible, angle of the mandible and minimum ramus breadth were considered as chief parameters for sex determination from dried bones obtained from the Departments of Anatomy in two medical colleges of Punjab and Chandigarh. There was a statistically significant difference found in the diagonal length, horizontal length and minimum ramus breadth with their mean values 79.77 ± 4.68 mm, 71.99 ± 4.54 mm and 30.93 ± 2.56 mm in adult males, respectively and 73.83 ± 4.84 mm, 68.62 ± 4.78 mm and 29.57 ± 2.86 mm in adult females, respectively, whereas no significant difference was found in the mandibular angle of males and females. The parameters used for the present study gave an overall 60% accuracy in determining the sex of the mandible.
AB - Sex determination from bones is important in forensic investigations for establishing identity in cases of mutilated bodies. Many morphometric criteria have been laid down for various bones for sex determination in previous studies. The present study aimed at setting up some parameters of the mandible as indicators of sex in the Indian population. The length of body of the mandible, angle of the mandible and minimum ramus breadth were considered as chief parameters for sex determination from dried bones obtained from the Departments of Anatomy in two medical colleges of Punjab and Chandigarh. There was a statistically significant difference found in the diagonal length, horizontal length and minimum ramus breadth with their mean values 79.77 ± 4.68 mm, 71.99 ± 4.54 mm and 30.93 ± 2.56 mm in adult males, respectively and 73.83 ± 4.84 mm, 68.62 ± 4.78 mm and 29.57 ± 2.86 mm in adult females, respectively, whereas no significant difference was found in the mandibular angle of males and females. The parameters used for the present study gave an overall 60% accuracy in determining the sex of the mandible.
KW - Angle of mandible
KW - Minimum ramus breadth
KW - Sex determination
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85006207696
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejfs.2015.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ejfs.2015.01.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006207696
SN - 2090-536X
VL - 6
SP - 165
EP - 169
JO - Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
JF - Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
IS - 2
ER -