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 familial nephrotic syndrome characterized by onset of progressive kidney dysfunction in infancy, edema, hypoproteinemia, proteinuria, microscopic hematuria, effacement of the podocyte foot processes, glomerulosclerosis, and thickening of the glomerular basement membrane that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the NOS1AP gene on chromosome 1q23.3. (DO)