Article
Identification of the remains of the Romanov family by DNA analysis.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 1994
Gill P, Ivanov P L, Kimpton C, Piercy R, Benson N, Tully G, Evett I, Hagelberg E, Sullivan K
Abstract excerpt
Nine skeletons found in a shallow grave in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in July 1991, were tentatively identified by Russian forensic authorities as the remains of the last Tsar, Tsarina, three of their five children, the Royal Physician and three servants. We have performed DNA based sex testing and sh...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Bone and Bones
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Famous Persons
- Female
- History, 20th Century
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Russia
- Sequence Analysis, DNA