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ArticleScientific reports2025

Advancing non-destructive sex determination on human dental enamel using Raman spectroscopy.

Raphael Hug, Anna E Wood, Frank J Rühli, Patrick E Eppenberger

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Raphael HugInstitute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
Anna E WoodInstitute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
Frank J RühliInstitute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
Patrick E EppenbergerInstitute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland. patrick.eppenberger@iem.uzh.ch.

Funding

IEM Starting Grant 2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological sex determination is essential for analyzing human skeletal remains in archaeology, anthropology, and forensic science. This study investigates whether Raman spectroscopy of intact human dental enamel can be used as a non-destructive method for sex estimation. Orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) and logistic regression identified sex-specific spectral characteristics in 88 human teeth from 47 modern individuals (26 females, 21 males). The OPLS-DA model showed excellent performance, with R

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Dental EnamelSex Determination AnalysisSpectrum Analysis, RamanAdultDiscriminant AnalysisFemaleHumansMaleROC Curve

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PMID40319061
PMCPMC12049422

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