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 syndrome that is characterized by permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, osteoporosis, growth retardation and frequently hepatic and renal dysfunction that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 alpha kinase 3 (EIF2AK3) gene on chromosome 2p11.2. (DO)