Waxenbaum Erin B, Hunt David R, Falsetti Anthony B
Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
J Forensic Sci. 2010 Jan;55(1):145-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01222.x. Epub 2009 Nov 30.
Maximum length measurement of the tibia has been found to be variable both in description and implementation. Historically, the literature often excludes the intercondylar eminences from the tibia in metric analysis. This paper explores the quantitative effects of inclusion or exclusion of the eminences on the maximum length measure across ancestral population, age and sex in five human adult populations of American Whites and Blacks, two Native American samples, and East Asians. A Tukey's post hoc comparison was employed to determine the overall effect of inclusion the intercondylar eminences has on metric assessment of the tibia. Results show no significant effect on comparative analysis of the tibia by age or sex. However, the difference between sample means by ancestry is significant (p < 0.0001). These results pose interesting questions concerning the morphological differences between ancestral groups. This investigation prompts further study of population variation of the human knee.
胫骨的最大长度测量在描述和实施方面都存在差异。从历史上看，文献在进行度量分析时通常将髁间隆起排除在胫骨之外。本文探讨了在五个美国白人和黑人成年人群体、两个美洲原住民样本以及东亚人群体中，包含或排除髁间隆起对不同祖先群体、年龄和性别的胫骨最大长度测量的量化影响。采用Tukey事后比较法来确定包含髁间隆起对胫骨度量评估的总体影响。结果表明，年龄或性别对胫骨的比较分析没有显著影响。然而，按祖先划分的样本均值之间的差异是显著的（p < 0.0001）。这些结果提出了有关不同祖先群体之间形态差异的有趣问题。这项研究促使人们进一步研究人类膝关节的群体差异。
