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.
An autosomal recessive disorder characterized by onset of night blindness in early childhood, with gradual loss of peripheral vision and later of central vision. Caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the TMEM216 gene on chromosome 11q12.