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 inflammatory bowel disease characterized by inflammation located_in ileum, has_symptom diarrhea, has_symptom abdominal pain, often in the right lower quadrant, has_symptom weight loss. (DO)