Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)

CHAPTER SEVEN – Genetic investigations

group (Béla

III,

11/54, 11/55, 1/3 G5, 1/4 H6 and 11/109) contained several longer fragments, which made the detection of A-STR markers more effective. The DNA isolated from the bone samples of the second group, which included 11/52,11/53, Anne of Antioch and the fetus, was quite fragmented and contained significantly fewer template sequences than the previous groups DNA samples, making it much more difficult to detect A-STR markers. The results are shown in Figure 33.

Allele lengths

Figure 33. The probabilities of 20 A-STR markers’ detectability displayed in relation to allele length. The bone samples belonging to group 1 (Béla

III,

11/54,11/55,1/3 G5,1/4 H6,11/109) are the ones from which the isolated DNA contained several longer fragments, thus facilitating the detection of A-STR markers (blue line). The DNA isolated from the members of group 2 (skeletons 11/52,11/53,

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