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Wiley, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00851.x

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Frontal Sinus Accuracy in Identification as Measured by False Positives in Kin Groups

Journal article published in 2008 by Roberto Cameriere ORCID, Luigi Ferrante, Theya Molleson, Barry Brown
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Abstract

The aims of this study were to verify if frontal sinuses can uniquely identify individuals belonging to family groups using Cameriere methods and to test if kinship can affect the proportion of erroneous identifications. For this purpose, we compared the proportion of false-positive identifications in a sample of 99 individuals within 20 families with a control sample of 98 other individuals without kinship. The results show that the combined use of SOR and the Yoshino code number allows personal identification with a small probability of false positives (p < 10(-6)), even when kinship is taken into account. The present research confirms the importance of studying anthropological frameworks for identification, which leads to reliable methods and allows for both quick and economic procedures.