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Sex determination can be particularly crucial in forensic casework such as rape cases or cases of missing persons. Biological traces have to be genetically typed and the classification of the sex is of great importance for further investigations. Lately, several papers were published on reliability of sex determination by genetic typing of amelogenin gene-specific fragments. Problems may arise not...