Nasal aperture shape evaluation between black and white South Africans

Forensic Science International

Volumn 222, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 397.e1-397.e6

  McDowell, Jennifer L ^a   L'Abbé, Ericka N ^a   Kenyhercz, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Craniometrics; Elliptical Fourier analysis; Forensic anthropology; Forensic Anthropology Population Data; Geometric morphometrics; Population specific

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NASAL APERTURE; NOSE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84865656756     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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