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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Discriminant function sexing of fragmentary femur of South African blacks
Forensic Science International, Volume 145, No. 1, Year 2004
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When fragmentary and incomplete bones are all that are available to the forensic anthropologist for use in sex determination, non-metric and metric sex discriminating parameters that have been derived from complete bones may be of little use. In such circumstances, sex discriminating metric methods that are of specific application to fragmentary bones will be more useful. Since such studies have not been systematically carried out in bones of South African blacks, the aim of this study was to begin to provide such data. Two hundred and twenty left femurs of black South Africans were obtained from the Raymond A. Dart Collection of African Skeleton, School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Five variables from the upper end of the femur and three variables from the lower end of the femur were measured and subjected to univariate and multivariate discriminant function analyses. The vertical head diameter and the medial condylar length were most successful in sex identification from the upper and lower ends of the femur respectively. The combined variables were more useful than the use of variables individually. Discriminant function score equations were derived for individual and combined variables from the upper and lower ends of the femur of the South African blacks. © 2004 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Asala, Samuel A.
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences
Nigeria, Maiduguri
University of Maiduguri
Bidmos, Mubarak A.
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences
Dayal, Manisha Ramanlal
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences
Statistics
Citations: 82
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.03.010
ISSN:
03790738
Study Locations
South Africa