An analysis of fingerprint ridge density in the Indo-Mauritian population and its application to gender determination.

Gender determination is an important aspect of personal identification, which is often required in medicolegal practice. Many experts believe that there are finer and more epidermal ridges on the fingers of women as compared with men. However, it is important to establish numerical cut-off values in terms of ridge counts to facilitate the gender determination within a particular population.

Sex identification on the basis of hand and foot measurements in Indo-Mauritian population--a model based approach.

Identification is the foremost issue in crime investigation. A few studies have been performed so far in order to identify sex on the basis of single foot or hand of the victim. Moreover, these studies provide only crude measures to indicate sex and there exists no concrete methodology to predict sex using the available information.

Estimating stature from percutaneous length of tibia and ulna in Indo-Mauritian population.

Stature estimation from percutaneous body measurements forms part of forensic anthropological analysis for the purpose of identification. This study is aimed at modeling the stature on the basis of percutaneous tibial and/or ulnar length in human subjects comprising of Indo-Mauritian population. The study was conducted in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, SSR Medical College, Mauritius on 180 young and healthy students comprising of 90 males and 90 females in the age group ranging from 18 to 28 years.