Brief communication: Discrimination between European-American and African-American children based on deciduous dental metrics and morphology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-60

  Lease, Loren R ^a   Sciulli, Paul W ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry estimation; Deciduous teeth; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CANINE TOOTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; DENTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PREMOLAR TOOTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODONTOMETRY; OHIO; TENNESSEE; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10044242722     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20062     Document Type: Article

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