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 dysostosis characterized by cranium bifidum, severe hypertelorism, median cleft lip and palate, nasal bifurcation, brachycephaly, large fontanelle, tibial hemimelia, preaxial polydactyly of the feet and brain malformations. (DO)