Stature estimation for personal identification using mandibular morphometric parameters in Italian population: a preliminary report

Submitted: November 21, 2013
Accepted: November 21, 2013
Published: January 10, 2014
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Stature is fundamental in personal identification for forensic and physical anthropologists. When a full skeleton is not available, stature can be estimated from incomplete human remains. It is also important to apply a method to estimate the stature based on the same specific population of the remains. For this purpose, we measured 4 distances between cephalometric landmarks of the mandible and the stature in 56 subjects (both males and females) from Caucasian Italian population. The correlation between these parameters appeared to be statistically significant, so that it was possible to establish a regression equation to estimate the stature from the mandible in this population.

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Milani, C., Milani, R., & Panattoni, G. L. (2014). Stature estimation for personal identification using mandibular morphometric parameters in Italian population: a preliminary report. Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino Della Società Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, 87(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2014.2130