Estimation of sex from the lower limb measurements of Sudanese adults

Morphological study of rugae palatinae in Sudanese Nubians

“…Moreover, the high success rate in these two studies may be due to the existence of individually related differences. Previous studies of the Sudanese reveal moderate to high degrees of sexual dimorphism when using limbs [2,3] and crania [4]. The results of this study, including the dimensions, shapes and directions of rugae palatinae, lack this discriminatory ability, thus indicating that the rugae palatinae is not an effective tool for the assigning of sex and signifying the need to assess the discriminative capability of other aspects of Sudanese Nubians.…”

Determination of Sex From Foot Dimensions

“…This goes in hand with earlier studies and proves sexual dimorphism in foot length, foot breadth [2,10,14] and bimalleolar breadth. [15,16]. In the present study males had an average foot length of 1.24cm and foot breadth of 0.86cm more than that in females.…”

“…These variations could be due to fact that anatomic structures of foot shows ethnical and regional variations owing to genetic background, climatic factors, physical activities, socio-economic status, nutritional conditions and practice of using different footwear. [15,22,23]. Sexual dimorphism made us to derive logic regression equations by using different parameters of foot dimensions to determine the sex of a person.…”

Estimation of sex from the anthropometric ear measurements of a Sudanese population

“…Although palatal rugae, cranial and limb parameters have been used in sex estimation in adult Sudanese Arabs [31][32][33][34], the present study highlights the importance of sex assessment potential of ear variables that has not been explored before among the Sudanese. In considering the sex classification accuracy of the direct single variable discriminant analyses, the maximum classification accuracy obtained was 70% for the right ear and 68% for the left ear.…”