Polygenic Score (PGS) ID: PGS018399

Predicted Trait
Reported Trait Cardiac MRI 3D diffusion-autoencoder latent phenotype Z111_S1
Mapped Trait(s) magnetic resonance imaging of the heart (EFO_0022611)
Additional Trait Information Unsupervised image-derived latent phenotype (latent dimension Z111, DiffAE model seed S1) learnt from temporally-resolved cardiac MRI, UK Biobank.
Released in PGS Catalog: July 15, 2026
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Score Details

Score Construction
PGS Name GWAS_disc_Z111_S1
Development Method
Name LDpred2-auto
Parameters LDpred2-auto applied to the discovery GWAS summary statistics (REGENIE, additive model). Candidate variants pruned with PLINK2 (250 kb window, step 5, unphased hardcall r2<0.5), missing call rate <0.1, INFO>0.4, MAF>0.01, plus all conditionally-independent genome-wide-significant variants (~1.28M candidates).
Variants
Original Genome Build GRCh37
Number of Variants 1,105,486
Effect Weight Type beta
PGS Source
PGS Catalog Publication (PGP) ID PGP000826
Citation (link to publication) Ometto S et al. Nat Commun (2026)
Ancestry Distribution
Source of Variant
Associations (GWAS)
European: 100%
47,740 individuals (100%)
Score Development/Training
European: 100%
314,774 individuals (100%)

Development Samples

Source of Variant Associations (GWAS)
Study Identifiers Sample Numbers Sample Ancestry Cohort(s)
GWAS Catalog: GCST90856820
 47,740 individuals European UKB
Score Development/Training
Study Identifiers Sample Numbers Sample Ancestry Cohort(s) Phenotype Definitions & Methods Age of Study Participants Participant Follow-up Time Additional Ancestry Description Additional Sample/Cohort Information
— 314,774 individuals European UKB — — — — —

Performance Metrics

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PGS Performance
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(PSS) 		Performance Source Trait PGS Effect Sizes
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Evaluated Samples

PGS Sample Set ID
(PSS) 		Phenotype Definitions and Methods Participant Follow-up Time Sample Numbers Age of Study Participants Sample Ancestry Additional Ancestry Description Cohort(s) Additional Sample/Cohort Information