Approximately 1 in 700 children born have a cleft lip or a cleft palate or both.

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An example for how environmental factors might be linked to genetics comes from research on mutations in the gene PHF8 that cause cleft lip palate (see above).

Treatment Cleft lip and palate is very treatable however, the kind of treatment depends on the type and severity of the cleft.

Cleft lip is formed in the top of the lip as either a small gap or an indentation in the lip (partial or incomplete cleft) or it continues into the nose (complete cleft).

The catalytic activity of PHF8 depends on molecular oxygen, a fact considered important with respect to reports on increased incidence of cleft lip palate in mice that have been exposed to hypoxia early during pregnancy.