Forensic anthropologists assist law enforcement agencies and medical examiner's offices
with investigations involving human remains, providing insight into trauma analysis, the …

Ancestry assessment represents a major component of forensic anthropological analysis of
recovered human remains. Interpretations of ancestry, together with other aspects of the …

We report a genome-wide association scan for facial features in∼ 6,000 Latin Americans.
We evaluated 14 traits on an ordinal scale and found significant association (P values< 5× …

Abstract In 1992, Norm Sauer called for a language shift in which practitioners would move
away from the socially loaded term “race” and replace it with the less provocative term …

One of the parameters forensic anthropologists have traditionally estimated is ancestry,
which is used in the United States as a proxy for social race. Its use is controversial because …

The use of crown and root morphology to estimate population relationships has a long
history in dental anthropology. Over the past two decades, methods employing dental …

In forensic anthropology, ancestry estimation is essential in establishing the individual
biological profile. The aim of this study is to present a new program—AncesTrees …

Recent discussions have revolved around the concept of ancestry and ancestry estimation;
however, the associated terminology and its theoretical underpinnings have not been …

Sex estimation is extremely important in the analysis of human remains as many of the
subsequent biological parameters are sex specific (eg, age at death, stature, and ancestry) …

The classification performance of the statistical methods binary logistic regression (BLR),
multinomial and penalized multinomial logistic regression (MLR, pMLR), linear discriminant …