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Blood lipid levels are heritable and clinically important risk factors for cardiovascular disease, yet it remains unclear whether multi-omics integration can enhance lipid trait prediction beyond PRS alone. Methods: We first constructed single-omics scores, where gene expression, plasma protein, and plasma\/serum metabolite levels were genetically predicted and weighted by effect sizes estimated via LASSO regression. Subsequently, we implemented two integration strategies to develop composite multi-omics risk scores (MoRS): step-MoRS, which integrates single-omics scores using stepwise regression, and Lasso-MoRS, which directly models all predicted features across omics layers using LASSO regression. Both approaches were evaluated across European, South Asian, and African ancestries within the UK Biobank. Results: MoRS-based methods consistently demonstrated superior predictive accuracy compared to PRS alone for four lipid traits across diverse populations. Notably, Lasso-MoRS prioritized key biomarkers with predictive utility complementary to genomic data. Conclusions: These findings confirm that integrating multi-omics biomarkers with genomic data significantly enhances lipid trait prediction across diverse ancestries, offering biological insights into the molecular regulation of lipid metabolism.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/genes17070840","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,22]],"date-time":"2026-07-22T10:48:28Z","timestamp":1784717308000},"page":"840","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Multi-Omics Integration Improves Polygenic Risk Prediction for Lipid Traits: A Multi-Ancestry Study in UK Biobank"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-6164-9944","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nayang","family":"Shan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Statistics and Data Science, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yafang","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Statistics and Data Science, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lin","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"},{"name":"MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7251-3687","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zuoheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"5A","article-title":"Cholesterol and Lipids in the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease--The Framingham Heart Study","volume":"4","author":"Castelli","year":"1988","journal-title":"Can. 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