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 viral infectious disease that results_in inflammatory destruction located_in blood vessels of minks and rarely in humans, which has_material_basis_in Aleutian mink disease virus. The infection has_symptom weight loss, has_symptom hepatomegaly, has_symptom enlarged spleen, and has_symptom anemia. (DO)