Anthropometry of hand in sex determination of dismembered remains-A review of literature

T Kanchan, K Krishan - Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Sex determination is an important and one of the foremost criteria in establishing the identity
of an individual. Identification of dismembered/severed human remains that are frequently …

[HTML][HTML] Determination of sex from hand dimensions and index/ring finger length ratio in Upper Egyptians

KE Aboul-Hagag, SA Mohamed, MA Hilal… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Background Identification of human remains is an imperative element of any medicolegal
investigation, and a challenging task for forensic experts and physical anthropologists …

A new technique to determine vertical dimension of occlusion from anthropometric measurements of fingers

R Ladda, AJ Bhandari, VO Kasat… - Indian Journal of Dental …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find the correlation between vertical dimension of
occlusion (VDO) and length of fingers. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was …

Estimation of stature from index and ring finger length in a North Indian adolescent population

K Krishan, T Kanchan, N Asha - Journal of forensic and legal medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
The identification of commingled mutilated remains is a challenge to forensic experts and
hence, a need of studies on estimation of stature from various body parts in different …

Sex determination by the length of metacarpals and phalanges: X-ray study on Egyptian population

DA El Morsi, AA Al Hawary - Journal of forensic and legal medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Measurements of hand bones length have been shown to be sexually dimorphic in many
nationalities. The aim of this study is to assess the accuracy of sex determination from the …

Estimation of sex from hand and handprint dimensions in a Western Australian population

NI Ishak, N Hemy, D Franklin - Forensic science international, 2012 - Elsevier
A number of recent studies have demonstrated that sex can be estimated with a high degree
of expected accuracy through the analysis of anthropometric measurements of the hand …

[PDF][PDF] Sex determination from hand dimensions for forensic identification

S Dey, AK Kapoor - Int J Res Med Sci, 2015 - academia.edu
Background: Sex determination is an important and foremost criteria in establishing the
identity of an individual. The issue of Sex discrimination can be very complicated in cases of …

[HTML][HTML] Sex determination from hand dimensions and index/ring finger length ratio in North Saudi population: Medico-legal view

MAB Ibrahim, AM Khalifa, AM Hagras… - Egyptian journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Sex determination using human commingled remains is one of the most
important components in forensic identification. Aim Getting a reliable and accurate method …

Sex determination in highly fragmented human DNA by high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis

BA Álvarez-Sandoval, LR Manzanilla, R Montiel - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Sex identification in ancient human remains is a common problem especially if the skeletons
are sub-adult, incomplete or damaged. In this paper we propose a new method to identify …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of sex from index and ring finger lengths in an indigenous population of Eastern India

J Sen, T Kanchan, A Ghosh, N Mondal… - Journal of Clinical and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aim The present study was conducted with an aim to estimate sex from index and ring finger
lengths of adult individuals belonging to an indigenous population of eastern India …