MDLP K5

MDLP K5 is an Ancient-era admixture calculator that models a person's or sample's deep ancestral composition against five broad reference populations: East-Eurasian, West-Eurasian, Caucasian, South-Asian, and Paleo-mediterranean. Designed for a global audience — genetic hobbyists, students of population history, archaeogeneticists, and genealogists — it provides a clear, interpretable snapshot of major ancient genetic components that shaped human populations across millennia. The calculator quantifies proportional affinities to large-scale ancestral clusters rather than pinpointing recent family-level ancestry. By mapping results into five interpretable axes, MDLP K5 highlights major prehistoric trends: the east–west Eurasian separation, Caucasus-related gene flow as a conduit between Europe and Asia, South Asian clines associated with the subcontinent’s complex peopling, and Paleo-Mediterranean signatures tied to early hunter-gatherer and pre-Neolithic Mediterranean groups. These components help users see where their DNA aligns with broad ancient population structure and migration corridors. Users gain insights into long-term ancestry proportions, comparative placement of ancient samples, and hypotheses about past migrations or admixture events. The model is particularly useful for visualizing high-level patterns, cross-referencing archaeological contexts, and teaching or demonstrating how major ancestral streams contributed to modern diversity. MDLP K5 is valuable because it balances simplicity and historical relevance: five stable components reduce noise while preserving meaningful contrasts. It is not a fine-scale recent-ancestry tool; interpretations should be supported with additional analyses (PCA, qpAdm, formal tests) and archaeological or historical data. Use MDLP K5 for a robust, educational, and globally oriented first look at ancient admixture and the deep genetic architecture of human populations.