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ArticleForensic sciences research2022

Purkait's triangle revisited: role in sex and ancestry estimation.

MennattAllah Hassan Attia, Mohamed Hassan Attia, Yasmin Tarek Farghaly, Bassam Ahmed El-Sayed Abulnoor, Sotiris K Manolis, Ruma Purkait, Douglas H Ubelaker

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Article in Forensic sciences research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

MennattAllah Hassan AttiaForensic Medicine & Clinical Toxicology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2304-532X
Mohamed Hassan AttiaInstitute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-2963
Yasmin Tarek FarghalyDiagnostic Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Bassam Ahmed El-Sayed AbulnoorFixed Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Fayoum University, Faiyum, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-2754
Sotiris K ManolisAnimal & Human Physiology, Faculty of Biology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0585-6644
Ruma PurkaitDepartment of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7737-2521
Douglas H UbelakerDepartment of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8027-2919
Deakin University · AUAlexandria University · EGFayoum University · EGNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRSmithsonian Institution · USUniversity of Allahabad · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identification of unknown remains recovered from marine and terrestrial locations is a significant humanitarian problem. This investigation proposes a simple method applicable to fragmentary femora for a more refined level of ancestry and/or sex estimation. To that end, we re-examined Purkait's triangle which involves three inter-landmark distances between the traction epiphyses and the articular rim of femoral head. A large sample (

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ancestry estimationforensic anthropologyForensic sciencesfragmentary femorainternational forensic investigationsPurkait’s trianglerandom forest modelling

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