Nasal aperture shape and its application for estimating ancestry in modern South Africans

Nasal aperture shape and its application for estimating ancestry in modern South Africans

With both a heterogeneous population and a large number of unidentified persons in South Africa, an accurate method to estimate ancestry is needed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate variation in nasal aperture shape in black, white and coloured South Africans, using linear measures and geome...

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Main Author: McDowell, Jennifer Leigh
Other Authors: L'Abbe, Ericka Noelle
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Geometric morphometrics
Elliptical fourier analysis
Craniometrics
Black south african
White south african
Coloured south african
Procrustes analysis
Canonical variate analysis
Physical anthropology
Mid-face
UCTD
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26133
McDowell, JL 2012, Nasal aperture shape and its application for estimating ancestry in modern South Africans, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26133 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07082012-145417/

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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26133
McDowell, JL 2012, Nasal aperture shape and its application for estimating ancestry in modern South Africans, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26133 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07082012-145417/

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