Marcos Paulo Salles Machado, Sarah Teixeira Costa, Alexandre Rodrigues Freire, David Navega, Eugénia Cunha, Eduardo Daruge Júnior, Felippe Bevilacqua Prado, Ana Cláudia Rossi
The hip bone (os coxae) is the skeletal element that presents the greatest level of sexual dimorphism. Therefore, methods involving the analysis of the os coxae provide the most accurate sex estimation, and DSP2 (Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste v.2) is one of the most accurate tools used in this identification. The goal of this study is to apply and validate DSP2 in the identification of 103 os coxae (53 male and 50 female) belonging to a Brazilian-identified skeletal collection. Differences between sexes were statistically significant for all measurements, except for the acetabulo-symphyseal and spino-auricular lengths...
September 2018: Forensic Science International