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 nemaline myopathy characterized by onset in early infancy of muscle weakness with variable severity that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the KLHL41 gene on chromosome 2q31. (DO)