Sex estimation of teeth at different developmental stages using dimorphic enamel peptide analysis.

Rebecca L GowlandNicolas A StewartKayla D CrowderClaire HodsonHeidi ShawKurt J GronJanet Montgomery

Published in: American journal of physical anthropology (2021)

Sufficient peptide material to determine sex can be recovered even from the crowns of developing perinatal teeth that are not fully mineralized. The minimally destructive and inexpensive (compared to ancient DNA) nature of this procedure has significant implications for bioarchaeological studies of infancy and childhood.

Keyphrases

pregnant women
circulating tumor
minimally invasive
single molecule
cell free
early life
case control
cone beam computed tomography
physical activity
nucleic acid
bone regeneration
childhood cancer