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 severe combined immunodeficiency that results from defective IL7R expression causes T-B+NK+ SCID. Loss of IL-7R function leads to the loss of an antiapoptotic signal, resulting in a loss of T-cell selection in thymus. (DO)