Journal of Foot and Ankle Research This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon Estimation of stature from the foot and its segments in a sub-adult female population of North India Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2011, 4:24 doi:10.1186/1757-1146-4-24 Kewal Krishan (gargkk@yahoo.com) Tanuj Kanchan (tanujkanchan@yahoo.co.in) Neelam Passi (neelu12_chd@yahoo.com) ISSN Article type 1757-1146 Research Submission date 12 July 2011 Acceptance date 21 November 2011 Publication date 21 November 2011 Article URL http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/4/1/24 This peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below) Articles in Journal of Foot and Ankle Research are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central For information about publishing your research in Journal of Foot and Ankle Research or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.jfootankleres.com/authors/instructions/ For information about other BioMed Central publications go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/ © 2011 Krishan et al ; licensee BioMed Central Ltd This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited Estimation of stature from the foot and its segments in a sub-adult female population of North India Kewal Krishan1,*, Tanuj Kanchan2 and Neelam Passi1 Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160 014, India Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal University, India Corresponding Author: *Dr Kewal Krishan, PhD Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160 014, India E-mail: gargkk@yahoo.com Phone: 91-172-2534230 (Office) 91-172-2687372 (Residence) 91-9876048205 (Mobile) Abstract Background: Establishing personal identity is one of the main concerns in forensic investigations Estimation of stature forms a basic domain of the investigation process in unknown and co-mingled human remains in forensic anthropology case work The objective of the present study was to set up standards for estimation of stature from the foot and its segments in a sub-adult female population Methods: The sample for the study constituted 149 young females from the Northern part of India The participants were aged between 13 and 18 years Besides stature, seven anthropometric measurements that included length of the foot from each toe (T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5 respectively), foot breadth at ball (BBAL) and foot breadth at heel (BHEL) were measured on both feet in each participant using standard methods and techniques Results: The results indicated that statistically significant differences (p