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 heart conduction disease that is characterized by heart arrhythmia defined as a short QT interval on an EKG (less than 300 ms) that does not significantly change with heart rate, tall and peaked T waves, and a structurally normal heart. (DO)