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.
A congenital myasthenic syndrome characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance of postsynaptic neuromuscular junction defects resulting in prolonged synaptic currents and early-onset progressive muscle weakness that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the CHRND gene on chromosome 2q37. (DO)