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 retinal drusen characterized by yellow-white deposits (drusen) that accumulate beneath the retinal pigment epithelium in the posterior pole of the eye in a honeycomb pattern and that has_material_basis_in mutations in the EFEMP1 gene on chromosome 2p16. (DO)
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
DHRD; Malattia Leventinese
narrow_synonym:
Doyne honeycomb degeneration of retina; MLVT; radial drusen, autosomal dominant