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 neurodegenerative disease characterized by chronic, progressive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism-dementia. Susceptibility to this disease is influenced by heterozygous mutation in TRPM7 on 15q21.2. (DO)
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
ALS-PDC; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia of Guam syndrome; Guam PD; Guam disease; Guam form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Lytico-Bodig disease; PDALS; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Guam form; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, parkinsonism, dementia complex of Guam; parkinsonism-dementia of Guam; parkinsonism-dementia-ALS complex