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 hematopoietic system disease that is characterized by red blood cells that agglutinate upon exposure to almost all human sera, but not to autologous serum or the sera of newborns and has_material_basis_in somatic mutation in the C1GALT1C1 gene on chromosome Xq24. (DO)