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 diarrhea characterized by intractable diarrhea of infancy with villous atrophy, absence of inflammation, and intestinal epithelial cell dysplasia manifesting as focal epithelial tufts in the duodenum and jejunum that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the EPCAM gene on chromosome 2p21. (DO)
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
CTE; DIAR5; congenital diarrhoea 5 with tufting enteropathy; congenital familial intractable diarrhea with epithelial or epithelium abnormalities; congenital familial intractable diarrhoea with epithelial or epithelium abnormalities; congenital tufting enteropathy; intestinal epithelial cell dysplasia; tufting enteropathy