RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
An epithelial and subepithelial dystrophy that is characterized by sheet-like areas of basement membrane originating from the basal epithelial cells of the corneal epithelium and extending superficially into the epithelium. (DO)
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
Cogan corneal dystrophy; Corneal Dystrophy, Map-Dot-Fingerprint Type; EBMD; anterior basement membrane corneal dystrophy; corneal dystrophy, Cogan type; map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy of cornea; microcystic corneal dystrophy; microcystic dystrophy of the cornea