article_snippet: In 2011, the Russian Investigative Committee - its equivalent of the FBI - completed a probe into the royal deaths, and concluded based on DNA evidence that the bodies found in the Urals were genuine, including Alexei and Maria.
article_snippet: In 2011, the Russian Investigative Committee concluded on DNA evidence that the bodies found in the Urals the Urals were genuine .
article_snippet: the Orthodox Church also points to a DNA test which failed to find a match between a handkerchief stained with Nicholas's blood during an assassination attempt in Japan before Nicholas became tsar.
article_snippet: The scientists leading the identification of the tsar and his family were Peter Gill of the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham, England, Pavel Ivanov of the Genetic Laboratory in Moscow and Michael Coble of the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, US.
article_snippet: In 2011, the Russian Investigative Committee completed a probe into the royal deaths and concluded based on DNA evidence that the bodies found in the Urals the Urals did belong to Nicholas II (left) and Nicholas II .
article_snippet: When the boy's Y chromosome was compared with the bones believed to be the boy father Nicholas II's and a living donor Andrei Romanov who also descended from Nicholas I - they matched.
article_snippet: Finally, a blood sample from a shirt worn by Nicholas during the Japanese attack - stashed in a St Petersburg museum - showed matching DNA.