Applicability and limitations of sex assessment based on foramen magnum

Kód výsledku v 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>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11310/17:10367100

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Applicability and limitations of sex assessment based on foramen magnum

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Applicability and limitations of sex assessment based on foramen magnum

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

30501 - Forensic science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

ISSN

0379-0738

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

271

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

February

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

"„126.e1“"-"„126.e9“"

Kód UT WoS článku

000395505800019

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85009274921