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 pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 1 characterized by onset shortly after birth of severe hypotonia and respiratory insufficiency with most patients dying within weeks of birth that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the SLC25A46 gene on chromosome 5q22.1. (DO)