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.
Term:
neurodegeneration with ataxia, dystonia, and gaze palsy, childhood-onset
A neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by onset of gait ataxia, cognitive decline, and gaze palsy in the first or second decades and that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the SQSTM1 gene on chromosome 5q35. (DO)