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 disease characterized by nonsyndromic bilateral severe to profound hearing impairment, with onset as early as the first decade of life. Caused by homozygous mutation in the STX4 gene on chromosome 16p11.