“…This includes data from groups residing in geographically secluded regions within the Carpathian Basin, like Bodrogköz 25 , as well as the Rétköz and Váh valley communities 26 . Based on Ychromosomal data, the contemporary Hungarian males possess few identical genetic markers to 10 th -11 th century (conqueror) Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin as well as to the recent Central/Inner Asian populations and populations in the Ural and Caucasus Mountains 12,16,23,26,[28][29][30][31] . This rather weak paternal relationship could however be veri ed by the presence of haplogroups C-M217 (M86), R1a-Z93, Q-M242 and N-M46 in both ancient and present-day Hungarians 25,26,32,33 .…”