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Understanding Rare Chromosome and Gene Disorders

Unique Families


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?


Please click the button below to learn about Array CGH. The first of a series of Jargon Busting videos from Unique!

What is an Array CGH?

A caring voice in difficult times...


“Thanks so much for your time yesterday, it meant an awful lot to have a caring, informed voice on the end of the phone in these particularly 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- 93
England Avon 146
England Bath & NE Somerset 13
England Bedfordshire 169
England Berkshire 152
England Bristol 1
England Buckinghamshire 162
England Cambridgeshire 260
England Cheshire 303
England Cleveland 72
England Cornwall 142
England County Durham 151
England Cumbria 96
England Derbyshire 190
England Devon 263
England Dorset 156
England East Riding of Yorkshire 36
England East Sussex 246
England East Yorkshire 72
England Essex 472
England Fife 1
England Gloucester 1
England Gloucestershire 137
England Greater Manchester 346
England Hampshire 491
England Herefordshire 37
England Hertfordshire 284
England Humberside 18
England Isle of Man 11
England Isle of Wight 26
England Kent 518
England Lancashire 477
England Leicestershire 170
England Lewisham 1
England Lincolnshire 223
England London 642
England Merseyside 228
England Middlesex 150
England MS 1
England NE Lincolnshire 21
England NM 88012 1
England Norfolk 230
England North Lincolnshire 16
England North Somerset 36
England North Yorkshire 174
England Northamptonshire 160
England Northumberland 57
England Nottinghamshire 264
England NY 1
England OH 4487 1
England Oxfordshire 145
England Peterborough 1
England Rutland 4
England Shropshire 88
England Somerset 178
England South Gloucestershire 30
England South Yorkshire 319
England Staffordshire 204
England Stockport 1
England Suffolk 189
England Surrey 435
England Tyne & Wear 208
England Warwickshire 147
England West Mdilands 1
England West Midlands 427
England West Sussex 223
England West Yorkshire 425
England Wiltshire 164
England Worcestershire 101
England Wythenshawe 1
England Yorkshire 14
Northern Ireland -none- 13
Northern Ireland Antrim 2
Northern Ireland Co. Antrim 142
Northern Ireland Co. Armagh 46
Northern Ireland Co. Cavan 1
Northern Ireland Co. Cork 2
Northern Ireland Co. Derry 23
Northern Ireland Co. Down 98
Northern Ireland Co. Fermanagh 12
Northern Ireland Co. Londonderry 29
Northern Ireland Co. Tyrone 29
Northern Ireland County Armagh 1
Scotland -none- 27
Scotland Abderdeenshire 1
Scotland Aberdeenshire 66
Scotland Angus 21
Scotland Argyll 5
Scotland Argyll & Bute 13
Scotland Arran 1
Scotland Ayrshire 34
Scotland Berwickshire 2
Scotland Caithness 4
Scotland Central 10
Scotland Clackmannanshire 3
Scotland Dumfries & Galloway 18
Scotland Dumfrieshire 8
Scotland Dunbartonshire 11
Scotland East Ayrshire 10
Scotland East Dunbartonshire 9
Scotland East Lothian 21
Scotland Fife 64
Scotland Grampian 4
Scotland Highland 15
Scotland Inverclyde 5
Scotland Invernesshire 3
Scotland Isle of Bute 1
Scotland Isle of Lewis 3
Scotland Isle of Skye 2
Scotland Kincardineshire 1
Scotland Kirkcudbrightshire 1
Scotland Lanarkshire 48
Scotland Lothian 26
Scotland Midlothian 40
Scotland Moray 6
Scotland North Ayrshire 10
Scotland North Lanarkshire 46
Scotland Orkney 2
Scotland Outer Hebrides 2
Scotland Perth & Kinross 4
Scotland Perthshire 10
Scotland Renfrewshire 39
Scotland Ross-shire 12
Scotland Roxburghshire 8
Scotland Scottish Borders 12
Scotland Selkirkshire 5
Scotland Shetland 7
Scotland South Ayrshire 6
Scotland South Lanarkshire 23
Scotland Stirlingshire 47
Scotland Strathclyde 87
Scotland Sutherland 1
Scotland Tayside 1
Scotland West Dunbartonshire 4
Scotland West Lothian 44
Scotland Wigtownshire 1
Wales -none- 14
Wales Anglesey 16
Wales Caerphilly 4
Wales Carmarthenshire 28
Wales Ceredigion 11
Wales Clwyd 15
Wales Conwy 14
Wales Denbighshire 19
Wales Dyfed 3
Wales Flintshire 19
Wales Glamorgan 27
Wales Gwent 54
Wales Gwynedd 20
Wales Mid Glamorgan 32
Wales Monmouthshire 22
Wales Neath Port Talbot 1
Wales Pembrokeshire 24
Wales Powys 19
Wales Rhondda Cynon Taff 14
Wales South Glamorgan 43
Wales Vale of Glamorgan 23
Wales West Glamorgan 36

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
Algeria 2
Argentina 102
Aruba 1
Australia 1827
Austria 36
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 1
Belarus 11
Belgium 83
Bermuda 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 13
Botswana 1
Brazil 245
Brunei Darussalam 1
Bulgaria 16
Cambodia 1
Canada 1130
Canary Islands 6
Chile 49
China 34
Colombia 62
Costa Rica 2
Croatia 29
Cuba 3
Curacao 1
Cyprus 18
Czech Republic 33
Denmark 106
Dominican Republic 6
Ecuador 10
Egypt 13
Eire 656
El Salvador 1
Estonia 8
Faroe Islands 2
Fiji 1
Finland 87
France 232
Georgia 6
Germany 374
Ghana 1
Gibraltar 9
Greece 29
Guam 1
Guatemala 14
Guernsey 15
Hong Kong 26
Hungary 10
Iceland 19
India 74
Indonesia 13
Iran 11
Iraq 1
Israel 65
Italy 232
Japan 26
Jersey 15
Jordan 6
Kazakhstan 4
Kenya 3
Kosovo 1
Kuwait 6
Latvia 6
Lebanon 7
Lithuania 4
Luxembourg 7
Macedonia 3
Malawi 1
Malaysia 26
Maldives 1
Malta 16
Mexico 61
Moldova 4
Montenegro 1
Morocco 11
Namibia 1
New Caledonia 1
New Zealand 472
Nicaragua 1
Nigeria 3
North Macedonia 4
Norway 178
Oman 6
Pakistan 10
Palestine 1
Peru 11
Philippines 20
Poland 193
Portugal 56
Puerto Rico 10
Qatar 10
Republic of Panama 4
Romania 61
Russia 176
Saudi Arabia 21
Senegal 1
Serbia 9
Singapore 29
Slovakia 16
Slovenia 19
Somalia 1
South Africa 169
South Korea 12
Spain 242
Sri Lanka 5
Sudan 1
Suriname 1
Swaziland 1
Sweden 159
Switzerland 90
Syria 1
Taiwan 11
Thailand 15
The Netherlands 345
Trinidad & Tobago 5
Tunisia 6
Turkey 58
U.S.A 1
U.S.A. 10435
Uganda 1
Ukraine 31
United Arab Emirates 35
United Kingdom 13810
Uruguay 8
US 1
Uzbekistan 3
Venezuela 10
Vietnam 6
Zimbabwe 2