# Why are there near-identical disease terms in the Platform (ADHD), and how to collate the evidence?

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**Created:** [30 August 2022 09:10 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/why-are-there-near-identical-disease-terms-in-the-platform-adhd-and-how-to-collate-the-evidence/746 "2022-08-30T09:10:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [1 September 2022 10:18 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/why-are-there-near-identical-disease-terms-in-the-platform-adhd-and-how-to-collate-the-evidence/746/8 "2022-09-01T10:18:16Z")

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Related to this previous topic:

> [@Duplicated diseases in 22.06](https://community.opentargets.org/t/duplicated-diseases-in-22-06/702):
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> Due to a problem in the ontology, a number of rare diseases are duplicated in the 22.06. EFO is currently undergoing a cleanup of the Orphanet terms to assign them to their corresponding MONDO id when appropriate. As part of this process, a large number of terms have been duplicated in the ontology. We are working with EFO to resolve this issue ASAP:

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