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 congenital myopathy that is characterized by onset of muscle weakness in utero or soon after birth and that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the SCN4A gene on chromosome 17q23. Biallelic mutation in the SCN4A gene also causes severe fetal congenital myopathy 22B. (DO)