Publications by authors named "Endre Neparaczki"

Female burials equipped with weapons, a topic of interest among scholars and the general public, remain rare occurrences in archaeological records. The interpretation of such cases requires an interdisciplinary approach and a comprehensive evaluation of the available evidence, particularly regarding the sex and potential lifestyle of the deceased. Consequently, data on specific populations, regions, and time periods remain scarce.

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The Aba family played a pivotal role in Medieval Hungary, dominating vast territories and producing influential figures. We conducted an archaeogenetic study on remains from the necropolis in Abasár, the political center of the Aba clan, to identify family members and explore their genetic origins. Using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) data from 19 individuals and radiocarbon dating, we identified 6 Aba family members with close kinship ties.

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  • The Báthory family was a powerful noble dynasty in medieval Hungary, especially influential during the Ottoman occupation, with members becoming princes and one even elected as King of Poland.!
  • Recent archaeological excavations in Romania uncovered their former family chapel, leading to the identification of two Báthory family members among 13 skeletons found at the site.!
  • Genetic analysis revealed that these family members belonged to a specific Y chromosome haplogroup indicative of their Germanic origins, along with evidence of intermingling with medieval Hungarians.!
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Kinship analysis from very low-coverage ancient sequences has been possible up to the second degree with large uncertainties. We propose a new, accurate, and fast method, correctKin, to estimate the kinship coefficient and the confidence interval using low-coverage ancient data. We perform simulations and also validate correctKin on experimental modern and ancient data with widely different genome coverages (0.

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The Hunyadi family is one of the most influential families in the history of Central Europe in the 14th-16th centuries. The family's prestige was established by Johannes Hunyadi, a Turk-beater who rose to the position of governor of the Kingdom of Hungary. His second son, Matthias Hunyadi, became the elected ruler of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1458.

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Huns, Avars, and conquering Hungarians were migration-period nomadic tribal confederations that arrived in three successive waves in the Carpathian Basin between the 5 and 9 centuries. Based on the historical data, each of these groups are thought to have arrived from Asia, although their exact origin and relation to other ancient and modern populations have been debated. Recently, hundreds of ancient genomes were analyzed from Central Asia, Mongolia, and China, from which we aimed to identify putative source populations for the above-mentioned groups.

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  • The Gepids were a Germanic tribe that settled in the Carpathian Basin during the Migration Period, becoming allies of the Huns and later forming an independent kingdom after the fall of the Hun Empire.
  • Due to limited historical and archaeological evidence, there's ongoing debate about the origins and makeup of these populations, prompting new research into their genetic legacy.
  • The study analyzed 46 complete mitochondrial genomes from Gepid cemeteries in Transylvania dating to the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD, revealing that the Gepids primarily descended from Northwestern European lineages, which contributed significantly to their genetic structure.
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  • Nomadic Hungarian groups significantly influenced the early population of Hungary, but genetic data mainly focuses on the elite class rather than commoners.
  • Analysis of 202 individual mitogenomes reveals that the genetic makeup of 10-11th century commoners differs from that of the elite, showing closer affinities to local European populations.
  • There is evidence of genetic admixture between the elite immigrants and local commoners, suggesting that most commoners were likely local inhabitants who mixed with the incoming Hungarian groups.
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  • Researchers conducted genome sequencing on the skeletal remains of Hungarian King Béla III and eight others to trace the origins of the Árpád Dynasty.
  • Y-chromosome analysis showed that Béla III and one other individual belonged to haplogroups indicating a connection to South Central Asia, particularly modern Iran and the Caucasus.
  • The closest living relatives of the Árpád Dynasty are identified as the modern Bashkirs from Bashkortostan, with their ancestry tracing back to Northern Afghanistan approximately 4500 years ago.
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Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived to the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape, however their origin remains largely unknown. In order to shed light on the genetic affinity of above groups we have determined Y chromosomal haplogroups and autosomal loci, suitable to predict biogeographic ancestry, from 49 individuals, supposed to represent the power/military elit. Haplogroups from the Hun-age are consistent with Xiongnu ancestry of European Huns.

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  • The text discusses an update or correction related to the research article indicated by the DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205920.!
  • It highlights specific inaccuracies or errors found in the original publication that necessitated this correction.!
  • The correction ensures that the research findings are accurately represented and maintains the integrity of the scientific record. !
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It has been widely accepted that the Finno-Ugric Hungarian language, originated from proto Uralic people, was brought into the Carpathian Basin by the conquering Hungarians. From the middle of the 19th century this view prevailed against the deep-rooted Hungarian Hun tradition, maintained in folk memory as well as in Hungarian and foreign written medieval sources, which claimed that Hungarians were kinsfolk of the Huns. In order to shed light on the genetic origin of the Conquerors we sequenced 102 mitogenomes from early Conqueror cemeteries and compared them to sequences of all available databases.

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  • Researchers are building a detailed genetic database of medieval Hungarian conquerors by resequencing the entire mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 24 ancient samples using advanced sequencing technology.
  • Traditional PCR methods used for genetic sequencing often lead to incorrect identification of haplotypes and haplogroups due to their susceptibility to ambiguous sequence reads.
  • The SNaPshot method, combined with established criteria for ancient DNA authenticity, offers a cost-effective and efficient way to analyze coding region SNPs for accurate haplogroup classification.
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  • * Our study identified 17 mtDNA haplotypes and four Y-chromosome haplogroups from first-generation Hungarians, indicating a significant genetic link to Central Asia-South Siberia that persists in present-day Hungarians.
  • * Additionally, we found that early Hungarians mixed with various European populations during their migrations, with notable genetic contributions from the Caucasus, while their closest modern relatives often speak non-Indo-European languages.
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