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

consensus alleles. The comparison conducted with consensus alleles showed that using PCR analysis, the two skeletons differ in 5 markers out of 20 due to allele length difference. This contradicts a father-son relationship, and instead the grandfather, Béla

II

(the Blind), could be considered as a possibility. The possibility of burial next to uncles has little support from historians, since László II

and István

IV

were pretenders, and thus it is unlikely that III Béla

and

his wife, Anne of Antioch, would be buried next to them.

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