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
Regarding the A-STR markers from skeleton 11/52 s femur, we were only able to take into account 12 marker data points out of 20 in the comparison. When comparing the femur and tarsus-1 samples at Göttingen, the paternal and maternal alleles of TH01 marker were both identical, while in the case of another three markers, only one allele of the femur was detectable, but that allele was identical to one of the alleles from tarsus-1. At markers D10S1248 and D22S1045, in the laboratories in Göttingen and Budapest, one tarsus-1 allele length belonging to the same markers in each facility are different from each other, but are identical to the corresponding femur marker length data investigated at the laboratory in Budapest. The alleles of the femurs D3S1358 marker are composed of 15 and 18 repeating units, while one of the D18S51 markers detectable allele lengths is made up of 15 repeating units. These were not identical to either allele length from tarsus-1, but the consensus allele lengths of these very same markers are identical to all the tarsus-1 marker data. Based on our studies, we have every reason to believe that the PCR amplification of alleles with such a large repeat number would not give a valid result. If skeleton II/52_3 s consensus A-STR marker data are taken into account, then it is apparent that all of the twelve evaluable marker data of the femur are identical to either the tarsus-1 and/or the rib; thus, all of the bones investigated belong to the same person. If we compare the twelve detected marker data of skeleton 11/52 with the corresponding marker data for Béla III, we find that for 10 markers all the alleles are the same length in both skeletons. The D2S441 marker data are indeed different in the two skeletons. We could only detect one allele of marker D18S51, so this difference must not be accepted as valid. The significance of the above is that these data also disprove the opinion of Éry and her working group about the originality of the 135
