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 X-linked nonsyndromic deafness characterized by congenital profound sensorineural hearing loss in males and mild to moderate high-frequency hearing loss in heterozygous females that has_material_basis_in mutation in the PRPS1 gene on chromosome Xq22.3. (DO)