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 primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by recurrent infections, reduced serum concentrations of immunoglobulin G and albumin due to rapid degradation of these proteins, abnormal renal or liver function, and excessive gastrointestinal protein that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in B2M on chromosome 15q21.1. (DO)