Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology

© 2017 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences The impact of climate change is estimated to be particularly severe in Thailand. Overall, the country faces an increase in surface temperatures, severe storms and floods, and a possible increase in the number of mass disasters in the region. It is ex...

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Main Authors: Peckmann T., Scott S., Meek S., Mahakkanukrauh P.
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-403092017-09-28T04:08:48Z Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology Peckmann T. Scott S. Meek S. Mahakkanukrauh P. © 2017 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences The impact of climate change is estimated to be particularly severe in Thailand. Overall, the country faces an increase in surface temperatures, severe storms and floods, and a possible increase in the number of mass disasters in the region. It is extremely important that forensic scientists have access to sex estimation methods developed for use on a Thai population. The goal of this project is to evaluate the accuracy of sex estimation discriminant functions, created using contemporary Mexican and Greek populations, when applied to a contemporary Thai sample. The length of the glenoid cavity (LGC) and breadth of the glenoid cavity (BGC) were measured. The sample included 191 individuals (95 males and 96 females) with age ranges from 19 to 96 years old. Overall, when the Mexican and Greek discriminant functions were applied to the Thai sample they showed higher accuracy rates for sexing female scapulae (83% to 99%) than for sexing male scapulae (53% to 92%). Size comparisons were made to Chilean, Mexican, Guat emalan, White American, and Greek populations. Overall, in males and females of the Thai sample, the scapulae were smaller than in the Chilean, Mexican, White American, and Greek populations. However, the male and female Thai scapulae were larger than in the Guatemalan sample. Population-specific discriminant functions were created for the Thai population with an overall sex classification accuracy rate of 83% to 88%. 2017-09-28T04:08:48Z 2017-09-28T04:08:48Z 4 Journal 13550306 2-s2.0-85013898877 10.1016/j.scijus.2017.02.005 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85013898877&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/40309
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description © 2017 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences The impact of climate change is estimated to be particularly severe in Thailand. Overall, the country faces an increase in surface temperatures, severe storms and floods, and a possible increase in the number of mass disasters in the region. It is extremely important that forensic scientists have access to sex estimation methods developed for use on a Thai population. The goal of this project is to evaluate the accuracy of sex estimation discriminant functions, created using contemporary Mexican and Greek populations, when applied to a contemporary Thai sample. The length of the glenoid cavity (LGC) and breadth of the glenoid cavity (BGC) were measured. The sample included 191 individuals (95 males and 96 females) with age ranges from 19 to 96 years old. Overall, when the Mexican and Greek discriminant functions were applied to the Thai sample they showed higher accuracy rates for sexing female scapulae (83% to 99%) than for sexing male scapulae (53% to 92%). Size comparisons were made to Chilean, Mexican, Guat emalan, White American, and Greek populations. Overall, in males and females of the Thai sample, the scapulae were smaller than in the Chilean, Mexican, White American, and Greek populations. However, the male and female Thai scapulae were larger than in the Guatemalan sample. Population-specific discriminant functions were created for the Thai population with an overall sex classification accuracy rate of 83% to 88%.
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Scott S.
Meek S.
Mahakkanukrauh P.
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Scott S.
Meek S.
Mahakkanukrauh P.
Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology
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Scott S.
Meek S.
Mahakkanukrauh P.
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title Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology
title_short Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology
title_full Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology
title_fullStr Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology
title_full_unstemmed Sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary Thai population: Applications for forensic anthropology
title_sort sex estimation from the scapula in a contemporary thai population: applications for forensic anthropology
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