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 kidney cortex disease that is characterized by death of the tissue in the outer part of the kidney that results from blockage of the small arteries that supply blood to the cortex and that causes acute kidney injury. (DO)