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 cerebellar ataxia that is characterized by postnatal onset of severe progressive sensorineural hearing loss and progressive cerebellar ataxia and that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the SLC9A1 gene on chromosome 1p36. (DO)