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 NINE – Statistical and genetic investigations for the purpose of personal identification

CHAPTER NINE

SUSANNE HUMMEL, JUDIT OLASZ,

VERENA SEIDENBERG,

ZOLTÁN

SZENTIRMAY,

GÁBOR TUSNÁDY

STATISTICAL AND GENETIC INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION

1. Statistical analysis of family relations based on the A-STR markers of Béla

III

and skeleton II/52_3

The analysis was conducted by Dr Gábor

Tusnády, using

his own log-likelihood method (see the Chapter Investigation of bone samples and methods').

The starting points and parameters are the following:

a) The

skeleton marked II/52_3 is male and was buried in the 12th century. In the analysis of family relations, only those kings were considered, who were buried in the 12th century in the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár,

and

whose skeletons could have been transported from there to the Matthias Church. These are the following: Béla

II

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