Applicability and limitations of sex assessment based on foramen magnum
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F17%3A43930830" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/17:43930830 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/17:10367100
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073816305308?np=y" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073816305308?np=y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.11.044" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.11.044</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Applicability and limitations of sex assessment based on foramen magnum
Original language description
Sex assessment of skeletal remains in the context of forensic investigation is one of the most important components when constructing biological profile of the deceased individual since it helps to significantly narrow down the number of potential victims. Therefore, the number of methods suitable to estimate sex should be as wide as possible, especially for cases of highly fragmented remains. This paper offers a classification method for sexing human remains based on an area around foramen magnum and tests other similar discriminatory functions published elsewhere on an independent sample from the circummediterranean region. We provide discriminant and logistic regression functions for several sets of variable combinations derived from head CT images. None of the functions performs reliably enough to be used in the forensic context. The same holds true for other discriminatory functions published in the literature. For most of the functions, the failure rate (its inability to successfully assign sex of an unknown individual) reaches 100%. Thus, despite the fact that foramen magnum is sexually dimorphic in most populations, its use in sexing cranial remains in the forensic context should be limited only to cases in which we know population affinity of unknown skeletal remains and can provide referential data from the same population to estimate sex.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30501 - Forensic science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
ISSN
0379-0738
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
271
Issue of the periodical within the volume
February
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
"„126.e1“"-"„126.e9“"
UT code for WoS article
000395505800019
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85009274921