Understanding Rare Chromosome and Gene Disorders

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With a global network of Families & Professionals, Unique can help you find out more about your child's or your own rare chromosome disorder, copy number variant or single gene disorder associated with learning disability and developmental delay. Click the button below to join us. We can answer many of your questions and match you with other families. You'll also be helping us understand the lifetime effects of these rare disorders. Alternatively, for queries, email info@rarechromo.org

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What is an Array CGH?


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What is an Array CGH?

A caring voice in difficult times...


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Welcome to Unique

Discovering that you or your child has a rare chromosome disorder, copy number variant or single gene disorder causing your child's learning disability, developmental delay and maybe other symptoms can come as a great shock. You might be feeling a mixture of emotions; sadness, confusion, numbness, anger, guilt, "why me?", isolation, bewilderment and very often a sense of grief for the child you had anticipated. You might despair at the lack of information about your own or your child's disorder or that the disorder hasn't even got a 'proper' name. Whatever your feelings and emotions, we know how much it can help to talk to people who understand what you are going through and who even know what you are talking about.

How can we help?

You might want to learn more about your child's rare chromosome disorder, copy number variant or single gene disorder or find another child with the same disorder. We can try to help you with information and family links and matches. Even if your child's disorder is unique, just talking to other parents can help to alleviate feelings of isolation and "Why me?" Please click on the links above and below for more information and to learn how we can help. If you can't find a guide to your child's disorder we might still have members registered on our confidential database with a similar disorder.  Just ask us on info@rarechromo.org Please note that we do not cover mitochondrial or metabolic disorders.

Practical Guides and Packs for Members

We collect information to help families affected by rare chromosome disorders, copy number variants and single gene disorders associated with learning disability and developmental delay with practical daily living and have produced a series of information guides on a variety of topics from communication to grants and funding. Additional practical guides and updates to existing guides will be coming on stream all the time, as fundraising and donations allow, so please do pop back regularly to see what’s new.

UK Membership

We have members living across the UK.  Click on the link below to see how many members live in your county.

UK Membership
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Country County No. of Members
England -none- 59
England Avon 136
England Bath & NE Somerset 12
England Bedfordshire 148
England Berkshire 141
England Buckinghamshire 137
England Cambridgeshire 224
England Cheshire 258
England Cleveland 70
England Cornwall 120
England County Durham 130
England Cumbria 84
England Derbyshire 164
England Devon 212
England Dorset 125
England East Riding of Yorkshire 32
England East Sussex 224
England East Yorkshire 63
England Essex 405
England Gloucestershire 114
England Greater Manchester 294
England Hampshire 394
England Herefordshire 29
England Hereforshire 1
England Hertfordshire 256
England Humberside 17
England Isle of Man 9
England Isle of Wight 22
England Kent 466
England Lancashire 394
England Leicestershire 142
England Lincolnshire 188
England London 548
England Merseyside 187
England Middlesex 138
England MS 1
England NE Lincolnshire 16
England NM 88012 1
England Norfolk 192
England North Lincolnshire 13
England North Somerset 31
England North Yorkshire 137
England Northamptonshire 147
England Northumberland 49
England Nottinghamshire 224
England NY 1
England Oxfordshire 125
England Rutland 4
England Shropshire 72
England Somerset 145
England South Gloucestershire 26
England South Yorkshire 261
England Staffordshire 181
England Suffolk 166
England Surrey 384
England Tyne & Wear 178
England Warwickshire 121
England West Midlands 353
England West Sussex 181
England West Yorkshire 370
England Wiltshire 144
England Worcestershire 78
England Wythenshawe 1
England Yorkshire 7
Northern Ireland -none- 7
Northern Ireland Antrim 1
Northern Ireland Co. Antrim 125
Northern Ireland Co. Armagh 35
Northern Ireland Co. Derry 14
Northern Ireland Co. Down 81
Northern Ireland Co. Fermanagh 12
Northern Ireland Co. Londonderry 24
Northern Ireland Co. Tyrone 25
Scotland -none- 12
Scotland Aberdeenshire 57
Scotland Angus 19
Scotland Argyll 5
Scotland Argyll & Bute 13
Scotland Arran 1
Scotland Ayrshire 32
Scotland Berwickshire 1
Scotland Caithness 4
Scotland Central 10
Scotland Clackmannanshire 3
Scotland Dumfries & Galloway 18
Scotland Dumfrieshire 7
Scotland Dunbartonshire 10
Scotland East Ayrshire 7
Scotland East Dunbartonshire 7
Scotland East Lothian 18
Scotland Fife 54
Scotland Grampian 5
Scotland Highland 14
Scotland Inverclyde 3
Scotland Invernessshire 1
Scotland Isle of Bute 1
Scotland Isle of Lewis 3
Scotland Isle of Skye 1
Scotland Kirkcudbrightshire 1
Scotland Lanarkshire 36
Scotland Lothian 24
Scotland Midlothian 34
Scotland Moray 5
Scotland North Ayrshire 7
Scotland North Lanarkshire 38
Scotland Orkney 1
Scotland Outer Hebrides 1
Scotland Perth & Kinross 1
Scotland Perthshire 7
Scotland Renfrewshire 32
Scotland Ross-shire 11
Scotland Roxburghshire 8
Scotland Scottish Borders 10
Scotland Selkirkshire 4
Scotland Shetland 7
Scotland South Ayrshire 5
Scotland South Lanarkshire 19
Scotland Stirlingshire 40
Scotland Strathclyde 87
Scotland Sutherland 1
Scotland Tayside 1
Scotland West Dunbartonshire 2
Scotland West Lothian 33
Scotland Wigtownshire 1
Wales -none- 7
Wales Anglesey 14
Wales Caerphilly 1
Wales Carmarthenshire 24
Wales Ceredigion 11
Wales Clwyd 14
Wales Conwy 12
Wales Denbighshire 19
Wales Dyfed 2
Wales Flintshire 13
Wales Glamorgan 19
Wales Gwent 50
Wales Gwynedd 19
Wales Mid Glamorgan 29
Wales Monmouthshire 20
Wales Pembrokeshire 22
Wales Powys 16
Wales Rhondda Cynon Taff 13
Wales South Glamorgan 40
Wales Vale of Glamorgan 18
Wales West Glamorgan 34

International Membership

We welcome families and individuals affected by rare chromosome and autosomal dominant single gene disorders to join our membership, no matter where in the world you live.  Click on the link below to see how many members we have living in your country.

International Membership
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Country No. of Members
Albania 3
Alderney 1
Argentina 85
Aruba 1
Australia 1593
Austria 29
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 1
Belarus 7
Belgium 70
Bermuda 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8
Brazil 180
Brunei Darussalam 1
Bulgaria 10
Cambodia 1
Canada 989
Canary Islands 6
Chile 37
China 29
Colombia 43
Costa Rica 1
Croatia 18
Cuba 2
Curacao 1
Cyprus 12
Czech Republic 23
Denmark 86
Dominican Republic 5
Ecuador 6
Egypt 8
Eire 580
El Salvador 1
Estonia 8
Faroe Islands 1
Fiji 1
Finland 84
France 195
Georgia 4
Germany 305
Ghana 1
Gibraltar 7
Greece 23
Guam 1
Guatemala 11
Guernsey 12
Hong Kong 24
Hungary 8
Iceland 18
India 54
Indonesia 11
Iran 7
Iraq 1
Israel 52
Italy 183
Japan 16
Jersey 11
Jordan 4
Kazakhstan 1
Kenya 2
Kuwait 3
Latvia 6
Lebanon 6
Lithuania 2
Luxembourg 6
Macedonia 2
Malaysia 20
Maldives 1
Malta 14
Mexico 47
Moldova 3
Montenegro 1
Morocco 9
Namibia 1
New Zealand 407
Nigeria 3
North Macedonia 4
Norway 150
Oman 5
Pakistan 6
Peru 7
Philippines 15
Poland 127
Portugal 46
Puerto Rico 9
Qatar 8
Republic of Panama 4
Romania 46
Russia 131
Saudi Arabia 15
Senegal 1
Serbia 6
Singapore 22
Slovakia 12
Slovenia 14
Somalia 1
South Africa 144
South Korea 11
Spain 198
Sri Lanka 5
Sudan 1
Sweden 137
Switzerland 71
Syria 1
Taiwan 10
Thailand 12
The Netherlands 303
Trinidad & Tobago 3
Tunisia 3
Turkey 45
U.S.A 1
U.S.A. 9135
Uganda 1
Ukraine 15
United Arab Emirates 31
United Kingdom 11801
Uruguay 7
Uzbekistan 1
Venezuela 8
Vietnam 5
Zimbabwe 2
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