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 fundus dystrophy that is characterized by early onset of night blindness and decreased visual acuity that progresses to blindness in early adulthood, has_material_basis_in mutation in RLBP1 gene. (DO)