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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4201</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.132103</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Morphologic and Morphometric Analysis of External Ear: A Preliminary Study on Monozygotic Twins for Personal Identification&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yash</surname><given-names>Baroniya</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Tanurup</surname><given-names>Das</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Abhimanyu</surname><given-names>Harshey</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ankit</surname><given-names>Srivastava</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>9</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>1)</volume><issue/><fpage>19</fpage><lpage>26</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Monozygotic twins have remained a mystery for researchers since their discovery in the early twentieth cen tury. As a result of the same set of genetic materials, monozygotic twins share almost similar morphological features. Hence, distinguishing monozygotic twins based on their physical appearance remains a formidable challenge for criminal investiga tors. The ear is one of the unique features of the human body. Aims: Previous researchers explored numerous features of the external ear for personal identification in different populations but no studies are available on the comparative analysis of identical twin__ampersandsignrsquo;s external ear. The present study investigates the mor phologic and morphometric features of monozygotic twins. Methodology: Samples under the study were collected randomly from 37 pairs of monozygotic twins from central India. Differ ent morphological features were recorded by keeping the previous literature as references. Vernier calliper is used to measure the length and breadth of the ear. Result: Oval shape and round-shaped ears are most and least frequent, respectively. Arch and triangular-shaped ear lobules have the highest and lowest frequency, respectively. The length and breadth of the right and left ears of the twin pairs have de picted a very high correlation. Observed results of the present study revealed precisely that selected features of the external ear of the corresponding sides in both individuals of each twin pair have no significant difference. Conclusion: This study concluded that the ears of monozygotic twins are morphologically identical. Although they have some minor morphometric variations, they can potentially distinguish them from each other.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> External ear</kwd><kwd> Monozygotic twins</kwd><kwd> Morphological features</kwd><kwd> Morphometric variation</kwd><kwd> Criminal investigation Personal identification</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
