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 spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia that is characterized by severe short stature, brachydactyly, skin laxity, joint hypermobility, and joint dislocations and that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the NEPRO gene on chromosome 3q13. (DO)