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:
spinal muscular atrophy with progressive myoclonic epilepsy
A motor neuron disease characterized by severe and progressive myoclonic epilepsy and lower-motor-neuron disease that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the ASAH1 gene on chromosome 8p22. (DO)
ClinVar Annotator: match by term: Hereditary myoclonus and progressive distal muscular atrophy | ClinVar Annotator: match by term: MYOCLONUS, HEREDITARY, WITH PROGRESSIVE DISTAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY CTD Direct Evidence: marker/mechanism