Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and Mandibles

In this study we tested the hypothesis that diagnostic performance of the morphological indicators for sexual dimorphism are reduced as they are applied in skull and mandibles of older subjects. We used 275 adult human skulls, 250 of these with mandible, all subjects with sex and age registry. Sixte...

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Autores principales: Suazo Galdames,Iván, Zavando,Daniela
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Publicado: Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0717-950220120001000532012-06-08Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and MandiblesSuazo Galdames,IvánZavando,Daniela Sexual dimorphism Sex determination Aging Age Skull In this study we tested the hypothesis that diagnostic performance of the morphological indicators for sexual dimorphism are reduced as they are applied in skull and mandibles of older subjects. We used 275 adult human skulls, 250 of these with mandible, all subjects with sex and age registry. Sixteen classic morphological indicators of sexual dimorphism were evaluated, this information was compared with the registry and results noted in terms of precision. The best general performance of morphological indicators of sexual dimorphism were recorded in the 31 - 40 and 61 - 70 years, age range groups. Lowest precision ws recorded in the group corresponding to subjects between 21 ­ 30 years. Our results do not support the proposed hypothesis and suggest a progressive and cumulative effect of factors that determine dimorphism expression.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de AnatomíaInternational Journal of Morphology v.30 n.1 20122012-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022012000100053en10.4067/S0717-95022012000100053
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language English
topic Sexual dimorphism
Sex determination
Aging
Age
Skull
spellingShingle Sexual dimorphism
Sex determination
Aging
Age
Skull
Suazo Galdames,Iván
Zavando,Daniela
Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and Mandibles
description In this study we tested the hypothesis that diagnostic performance of the morphological indicators for sexual dimorphism are reduced as they are applied in skull and mandibles of older subjects. We used 275 adult human skulls, 250 of these with mandible, all subjects with sex and age registry. Sixteen classic morphological indicators of sexual dimorphism were evaluated, this information was compared with the registry and results noted in terms of precision. The best general performance of morphological indicators of sexual dimorphism were recorded in the 31 - 40 and 61 - 70 years, age range groups. Lowest precision ws recorded in the group corresponding to subjects between 21 ­ 30 years. Our results do not support the proposed hypothesis and suggest a progressive and cumulative effect of factors that determine dimorphism expression.
author Suazo Galdames,Iván
Zavando,Daniela
author_facet Suazo Galdames,Iván
Zavando,Daniela
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title Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and Mandibles
title_short Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and Mandibles
title_full Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and Mandibles
title_fullStr Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and Mandibles
title_full_unstemmed Age Effect in the Morphological Traits Performance for Sex Determination in Human Skulls and Mandibles
title_sort age effect in the morphological traits performance for sex determination in human skulls and mandibles
publisher Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía
publishDate 2012
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022012000100053
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