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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bilfeld, Marie Faruch
• Dedouit, Fabrice
• Sans, Nicolas
• Rousseau, Hervé
• Rougé, Daniel
• Telmon, Norbert

Titel

Ontogeny of Size and Shape Sexual Dimorphism in the Pubis: A Multislice Computed Tomography Study by Geometric Morphometry

Ist Teil von

• Journal of forensic sciences, 2015-09, Vol.60 (5), p.1121-1128

Ort / Verlag

United States: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Few studies have been conducted to determine sex differences in the immature coxal bone and the results were often contradictory. The authors studied sexual dimorphic differences of the pubis using geometric morphometric analysis of five osteometric landmarks recorded by multislice computed tomography (MSCT), based on three‐dimensional reconstructions of 188 children (95 boys, 93 girls) living in the region of Toulouse, southwestern France, ranging in age from 1 to 18 years old. They used geometric morphometric methodology first to test sexual dimorphism in size (centroid size) and shape (Procrustes residuals) and second to examine patterns of shape change with age (development) and size change with age (growth). Based on statistical significance test results, the pubic shape became sexually dimorphic at 13 years old, although visible shape differences were observed as early as 9 years old. This work showed that the trajectories of pubis shape (development) and size (growth) differed throughout ontogeny and between sexes.