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

Nic

Figure 40. Global distribution of human Y-STR DNA haplogroups. The figure shows the Finno-Ugric haplogroups (Nic, Nib) and Árpád

Dynasty haplogroup (Ria) as clearly distinct from each other (complied by János

Jeney,

based on MMG 233 2014 Genetics & Genomics Wiki).

4. Genetic investigation of mitochondrial DNA

Analysis of the control region of the mitochondrial DNA (hypervariable region)

was conducted using mtDNA isolated from skeleton 11/52, Béla

III,

Anne of Antioch and the fetus in the Budapest-1 laboratory. In the course of this, they compared the SNPs found in the HVR1 and HVR2 variable regions of the mitochondrial 183