Cleft of the soft palate (also known as the velum, or muscular palate) as a result of a developmental defect occurring between the 7th and 12th week of pregnancy. Cleft soft palate can cause functional abnormalities of the Eustachian tube with resulting middle ear anomalies and hearing difficulties, as well as speech problems associated with hypernasal speech due to velopharyngeal insufficiency. (Human Phenotype Ontology, HP_0000185)
13 genes associated with the disease Cleft Soft Palate in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the DisGeNET Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
