1Demostrator, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana (India)
2Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana (India)
3Senior Professor & HOD, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana (India)
The estimation of sex is an important first step in developing a biological profile for human skeletal remains as methods of establishing stature and age-at-death are frequently sex dependent. Current study was an attempt to know the potential of sternum in the differentiation of sex in the population of Haryana of Northern India. A total of 100 adult sterna (comprising of 50 male and 50 female sterna) of confirmed sex were studied for parameters including length of manubrium, length of mesosternum and combined length of manubrium and mesosternum. The values were subjected to univariate and discriminant function analysis and a comparative analysis was made. The study confirmed sternum to be a potential indicator of sex in Haryanvi population of Northern India with length of mesosternum being the most useful parameter.
Discriminant Function Analysis, Identification, Limiting Point, Osteometric, Overlapping Zone, Sternum
