The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
Term:
abnormal susceptibility to aortic cartilaginous metaplasia
an anomaly in the susceptibility to the transformation of cells comprising the aorta epithelium to arterial chondrocytes that express type II collagen, resulting in heterotopic formation of cartilage and may lead to calcification in the aorta