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 corneal dystrophy that is characterized by corneal haze, bilateral loss of vision, eventually necessitating corneal transplantation resulting from progressive punctate opacities in the cornea. (DO)
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
Fehr corneal dystrophy; Groenouw type II corneal dystrophy; MCD; corneal dystrophy, macular type; corneal macular dystrophies
narrow_synonym:
MCDC1; Macular Corneal Dystrophy Type 1; Macular Corneal Dystrophy, Type I; macular corneal dystrophy 1; macular corneal dystrophy type II