DNA tests confirmed the authenticity of the remains of the family of Emperor Nicholas II, who was shot in Yekaterinburg in 1918, informed Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
According to him, experts compared the bone fragments of the remains of Nicholas II with biological samples of Alexander III and found that the probability of paternity was 99.99%. In addition, experts compared them with the genetic profile of blood from the shirt of Nicholas II, which is stored in the Hermitage. In this case, the examination also confirmed that the remains belonged to the emperor.
Experts confirmed that the remains of four women and one man belong to the children of Nikolai Romanov. Then, starting from the DNA of the children, they confirmed their relationship with a woman, Alexandra Feodorovna, whose remains were also in the burial.
The empress’ hair helped confirm the authenticity of the remains of the Romanovs
Anthropologists and geneticists confirmed the belonging of the remains of the daughter of Nicholas II Maria and Tsarevich Alexei by comparing their teeth, occipital, scapular, pelvic and femur bones. In addition, in some samples, a gene for hemophilia was found, which Tsarevich Alexei suffered from.