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:
Diabetes, Deafness, Developmental Delay, and Short Stature Syndrome
A disease characterized by childhood-onset autoantibody-negative diabetes mellitus and bilateral sensorineural deafness, as well as short stature, microcephaly, and developmental delay. Caused by homozygous mutation in the MANF gene on chromosome 3p21.