What is the appropriate approach in sex determination of hyoid
bones?

J 2013

What is the appropriate approach in sex determination of hyoid bones?

URBANOVÁ, Petra, Petr HEJNA, Lenka ZÁTOPKOVÁ and Miroslav ŚAFR

Basic information

Original name

What is the appropriate approach in sex determination of hyoid bones?

Name in Czech

Jaky je nejvhodnejsi postup pro urceni pohlavi na jazylce?

Authors

URBANOVÁ, Petra (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Petr HEJNA (203 Czech Republic), Lenka ZÁTOPKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Miroslav ŚAFR (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2013, 1752-928X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.989

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/13:00069505

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2013.08.010

UT WoS

000327719700014

Keywords (in Czech)

jazylka; urceni pohlavi; linearni diskriminacni analyza; symbolicka regrese; geometricka morfometrie

Keywords in English

hyoid bone; sex determination; linear discriminant function analysis; symbolic regression; geometric morphometrics

Abstract

V originále

The hyoid bone is characterized by sexually dimorphic features, enabling it to occasionally be used in the sex determination aspect of establishing the biological profile in skeletal remains. Based on a sample of 298 fused and non-fused hyoid bones, the present paper compares several methodological approaches to sexing human hyoid bones in order to test the legitimacy of osteometrics-based linear discriminant equations and to explore the potentials of symbolic regression and methods of geometric morphometrics. In addition, two sets of published predictive models, one of which originated in an indigenous population, were validated on the studied sample. The results showed that the hyoid shape itself is a moderate sex predictor and a combination of linear measurements is a better representation of sex-related differences. The symbolic regression was shown to exceed the predictive powers of linear discriminant function analysis when two models based on a logistic and step regression reached 96% of correctly classified cases. There was a positive correlation between discriminant scores and an individual’s age as the sex assessment was highly skewed in favour of males. This suggests that the human hyoid undergoes age-related modifications which facilitates determination of male bones and complicates determination of females in older individuals. The validation of discriminant equations by Komenda and Černý (1990) and Kindschud et al. (2010) revealed that there are marked inter-population and inter-sample differences which lessened the power to correctly determine female hyoid bones.

Links

MUNI/A/0835/2012, interní kód MU

Name: Aplikace metod analýzy obrazu a tvaru v rutinním zpracování kosterních nálezů

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

URBANOVÁ, Petra, Petr HEJNA, Lenka ZÁTOPKOVÁ and Miroslav ŚAFR. What is the appropriate approach in sex determination of hyoid bones? Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 2013, vol. 20, No 8, p. 996-1003. ISSN 1752-928X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2013.08.010.

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URBANOVÁ, Petra, Petr HEJNA, Lenka ZÁTOPKOVÁ and Miroslav $\backslash$'SAFR. What is the appropriate approach in sex determination of hyoid bones? \textit{Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine}. 2013, vol.~20, No~8, p.~996-1003. ISSN~1752-928X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2013.08.010.

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