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 distal myopathy that is characterized by onset at 14-28 years of age starting first in the anterior tibial muscles and involving both upper and lower proximal muscles that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the gene encoding dysferlin (DYSF) on chromosome 2p13. (DO)
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DMAT; distal muscular dystrophy with anterior tibial onset