Lumbosacral Defects in a 16th–18th-Century Joseon Dynasty Skeletal Series from Korea

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of lumbosacral transitional vertebrae (LSTV) in Joseon males and females.

	Number of LSTV occurrences/Total (%)			P value
	Males	Females	Indeterminate
Sacralization at L5	7/81 (8.6%)	1/68 (1.5%)	0/49 (0.0%)	0.071
Sacralization at L6	2/81 (2.5%)	0/68 (0.0%)	0/49 (0.0%)	0.501
Lumbarization at S1	1/81 (1.2%)	1/68 (1.5%)	2/49 (4.1%)	1.000
Extra L6 with 5 sacral segments	1/81 (1.2%)	1/68 (1.5%)	0/49 (0.0%)	1.000
Total	11/81 (13.6%)	3/68 (4.4%)	2/49 (4.1%)	0.088

probability value of Fisher’s exact test between the sexes.