Two recent posts at Dienekes' Anthropology Blog relate to DNA research in the Hungarian stock.

The first of the posts refers to a recent mtDNA paper in a Hungarian journal. According to the report the sample of 55 showed that a large majority belonged to haplogroups common in other European populations. Only in 5% of the samples could haplogroup M (common in Asia) be found. One of the comments on the posts also mentions that 3.6% of the sample carries haplogroup B. The WikiPedia human migrations map puts B to Japan and US Midwest.

Is a sample of 55 pieces ample enough to draw conclusions? I don't know.

The other post extracts info from the paper by Professor Raskó's team. They used both current samples (101 from today's Hungary, 76 from Hungarian speaking Seklers in the Transylvania part of Romania) and material found in 10-11th century Hungarian cemeteries (27 samples).

Let me quote an extract from the extract:

"Only 2 of 27 ancient Hungarian samples are unambiguously Asian: the rest belong to one of the western Eurasian haplogroups, but some Asian affinities, and the genetic effect of populations who came into contact with ancient Hungarians during their migrations are seen. Strong differences appear when the ancient Hungarian samples are analyzed according to apparent social status, as judged by grave goods. Commoners show a predominance of mtDNA haplotypes and haplogroups (H, R, T), common in west Eurasia, while high-status individuals, presumably conquering Hungarians, show a more heterogeneous haplogroup distribution, with haplogroups (N1a, X) which are present at very low frequencies in modern worldwide populations and are absent in recent Hungarian and Sekler populations. Modern Hungarian-speaking populations seem to be specifically European. Our findings demonstrate that significant genetic differences exist between the ancient and recent Hungarian-speaking populations, and no genetic continuity is seen."