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Sub-adult sex problem

The inability of classical morphological and metric osteological methods to determine sex in individuals below approximately 12-15 years of age, because skeletal sexual dimorphism does not develop until puberty. The solution in modern forensic practice is DNA amelogenin typing.

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AmelogeninDiscriminant function analysisFemoral head vertical diameterGeometric morphometricsHumeral head vertical diameterKhanpetch 2012Procrustes superimpositionScapular glenoid breadthStewart 1979 cut-offs

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