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17624707

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-3
pubmed:abstractText
Until now, determining the sex of a recently deceased individual using the measurement of the bicondylar breadth of the femur (also known as condylar width, epicondylar breadth and distal epiphyseal breadth) raised some concerns as to accuracy because no sample of contemporary French subjects was available. In this study, a sample of 88 female and male femurs taken from recently deceased elderly French people was studied. The bones were collected from subjects who had donated their bodies to the Medical School of Nice. The mean value of the male bicondylar breadth was found to be greater than that of females (84.3mm versus 74.8mm), confirming the sexual dimorphism of this parameter. Furthermore, the results showed a 95.4% accuracy rate for sexing individuals. To date, in the French population, as in some other samples, epicondylar breadth is the single most accurate measurement of sex determination, ahead even of head diameter. A discriminant function is presented to allow sex determination from remains of the distal femur. With regard to the data available in the literature, sexual dimorphism is probably the result of both genetic and environmental factors. The comparison of our results with those of other populations shows that there are inter-population variations of the bicondylar breadth, and also intra-population variations that account for the differences in the accuracy rate of this variable for the purposes of sex determination. These findings underscore the need to re-evaluate bone measurements within various contemporary populations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1872-6283
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
175
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
113-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Sex determination from the distal part of the femur in a French contemporary population.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Médecine Légale et Anthropologie Medico-légale, Faculté de Médecine, Laboratoire GEPITOS (CNRS/UNSA K2943), Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 28 Avenue de Valombrose, 06107 Nice Cedex 2, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article