Characteristic Features of Ear and Ear-Prints in Forensic Identification.

Introduction And Objectives: The human external ear is a morphologically perplexing structure with wide variations in its features across individuals. Advances in forensic science have established the use of morphological features and prints of different parts of the human body in establishing the identity of an individual. The present study aims to establish such an identification process by examining the use of comparative analysis of ear prints and ear photographs.

Evaluation of Morphological Characteristics of the Human Ear in Young Adults.

Introduction And Objectives: Human external ear is a morphologically complex structure and plays a vital role in the collection of sound. The present study would provide the information regarding the shape and size of the various morphological structures of the ear in normal individuals which may help the plastic surgeons to reconstruct the anatomy of the deformed ear and the physical and forensic anthropologists to study variations and establishing its use as a biometrics. The aim of the study was the morphological examination of the ear and its features to investigate the biological variations, sex differences, bilateral variations and further attempt to provide a database of external ears of a normal north Indian population.

Foraging to settled life: a comparative study of anthropometry and nutrition of Onges of Little Andaman Island.

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of forced settlement among the foraging Onges, which induced them to change their subsistence from full time foragers to settled consumer. Anthropometric study along with dietary investigation was considered before and afterwards they were forcibly settled. The anthropometric variables and indices show gradual increase among the Onges males but not so much in females.

Temporal trends in overweight and obesity among Nicobarese adults in Nicobar Islands, India, 1960s-1999.

Objective: The aim of the present study is to assess the change in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among Nicobarese adults from 1960s to 1999 using WHO recommendations for the classification of overweight and obesity.

Methods: The sample includes 774 individuals (424 men and 350 women) during 1960s and 484 individuals (259 men and 225 women) during 1999, aged 20-64 years from Nicobar Islands, India. Height (cm), weight (kg) and sitting height (cm) were measured and BMI (kg/m(2)) was calculated.

Updating phylogeny of mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup m in India: dispersal of modern human in South Asian corridor.

To construct maternal phylogeny and prehistoric dispersals of modern human being in the Indian sub continent, a diverse subset of 641 complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes belonging to macrohaplogroup M was chosen from a total collection of 2,783 control-region sequences, sampled from 26 selected tribal populations of India. On the basis of complete mtDNA sequencing, we identified 12 new haplogroups--M53 to M64; redefined/ascertained and characterized haplogroups M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M8'C'Z, M9, M10, M11, M12-G, D, M18, M30, M33, M35, M37, M38, M39, M40, M41, M43, M45 and M49, which were previously described by control and/or coding-region polymorphisms. Our results indicate that the mtDNA lineages reported in the present study (except East Asian lineages M8'C'Z, M9, M10, M11, M12-G, D) are restricted to Indian region.