Zulkifly Nuranis-Raihan, Wahab Roswanira Abd, Layang Elizabeth, Ismail Dzulkiflee, Desa Wan Nur Syuhaila Mat, Hisham Salina, Mahat Naji A
Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, UTM Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
Tudan Dental Clinic, Jalan Tudan Utama, 98100, Lutong, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2018 Jan;53:35-45. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2017.10.011. Epub 2017 Oct 31.
Handprints and dismembered hands are commonly found during crime scene investigations and disaster victim identifications, respectively. It has been indicated that the accuracy of handprint and hand measurements for estimating stature maybe population specific. Since Iban is the largest ethnic population in Sarawak, Malaysia and because the application of anthropometry of hand and handprint within this population as well as other populations within the Southeast Asian countries remain unreported, this present study that investigated the reliability and accuracy of these two anthropometric aspects acquires forensic significance. Upon measuring the height, 21 measurements were recorded on each hand and the corresponding handprint of 50 male and 52 female consented adult Iban subjects. Using univariate statistics as well as simple and multiple regression analyses, interpretation of the measurements examined here was attempted. Results revealed that lengths of hand and handprint are the more reliable traits for estimating stature in both the male and female Iban subjects (p < 0.05) with correlation strength ranging from 0.60 to 0.76. Comparable to the established skeletal standards for hand, the stature prediction accuracy using hand and handprint measurements investigated in this research ranged between 4.29 and 5.78 cm. Hence, this research provided the first forensic standard for estimation of stature among the Iban population in Sarawak that may prove useful for crime scene investigations and disaster victim identifications in Malaysia.
在犯罪现场调查和灾难受害者身份识别过程中，通常会分别发现手印和断手。有迹象表明，通过手印和手部测量来估计身高的准确性可能因人群而异。由于伊班族是马来西亚砂拉越最大的族群，且在该族群以及东南亚其他族群中，手部人体测量学和手印的应用情况尚未见报道，因此本研究对这两个人体测量方面的可靠性和准确性进行调查具有法医学意义。在测量身高后，对50名成年伊班族男性和52名成年伊班族女性的每只手及其相应的手印记录了21项测量数据。使用单变量统计以及简单和多元回归分析，尝试对这里所检查的测量数据进行解读。结果显示，对于伊班族男性和女性受试者，手长和手印长是估计身高更可靠的特征（p < 0.05），相关强度在0.60至0.76之间。与既定手部骨骼标准相比，本研究中使用手部和手印测量预测身高的准确性在4.29至5.78厘米之间。因此，本研究为砂拉越伊班族人群的身高估计提供了首个法医学标准，这可能对马来西亚的犯罪现场调查和灾难受害者身份识别有用。
