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Sex Determination Through Anthropometry Of Hand And Foot In Thais, Metinee Romphothong, Pongpon Traithepchanapai

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

Background: Sex determination is one of the most important aspects in forensic anthropology for the identification of unknown remains, especially dismemberment or mass disaster cases in which mutilated or fragmented remains are usually discovered; it is difficult to establish the identity of a long deceased body. The acquired sex data are used by investigators for narrowing down ante-mortem data which can be derived from the relatives of the deceased before comparing to the postmortem data.Objective: This study aimed to estimate sex using hand and foot measurements by measuring the external parts of the bodies in a Thai population.Methods: Subjects were …