Korean J Phys Anthropol.  2009 Sep;22(3):205-212.

Determination of Sex in Koreans using Atlas

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Korea. mdeornfl@sch.ac.kr
  • 2Department of Anatomy, Kwandong University, College of Medicine, Korea.
  • 3Department of Anatomy, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Korea.
  • 4Department of Anatomy, Catholic Institute for Applied Anatomy, College of Medicine The Catholic University of Korea, Korea.
  • 5Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea.

Abstract

When forensic anthropologists tried to reconstruct the biological profile, they would rely on the statistical data of documented human osteological/anatomical specimens. However, the metric data of Korean ancestry which is suitable for determining sex has not been established because documented human skeletal specimens are lack in Korean. The aim of this study is to discuss the possibility of determination of sex by metric data of atlas in Koreans. We measured 43 (male 25 and female 18) atlas from the department of anatomy, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University and the department of anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine. We measured 21 measurements of atlas using digimatic caliper and performed statistic analysis using SPSS to establish the discriminant functions. Among 21 measurements of atlas, the measurement values of the width of atlas exhibited the strongest relation with sexes. The accuracy of arbitrary discriminant functions derived from 6 measurements exhibited 93.9% and that of stepwise discriminant functions derived from 3 measurements exhibited 97.0%. In conclusion, this study could indicate that metric data of atlas is helpful to determine the sex in Koreans, but a further investigation should be followed.

Keyword

Biological profile; Korean; Atlas; Sex-determination; Metric data

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Humans
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