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 B cell deficiency characterized by onset late in the first decade of life of recurrent upper and lower respiratory infections, impaired antibody response to vaccination, low levels of circulating memory B cells, and almost undetectable antibodies that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the ARHGEF1 gene on chromosome 19q13.2. (DO)