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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...


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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- 69
England Avon 141
England Bath & NE Somerset 12
England Bedfordshire 159
England Berkshire 145
England Buckinghamshire 149
England Cambridgeshire 235
England Cheshire 277
England Cleveland 73
England Cornwall 129
England County Durham 141
England Cumbria 90
England Derbyshire 178
England Devon 234
England Dorset 134
England East Riding of Yorkshire 34
England East Sussex 231
England East Yorkshire 67
England Essex 426
England Gloucestershire 121
England Greater London 1
England Greater Manchester 316
England Hampshire 423
England Herefordshire 33
England Hertfordshire 270
England Humberside 17
England Isle of Man 10
England Isle of Wight 23
England Kent 482
England Lancashire 431
England Leicestershire 150
England Lincolnshire 204
England London 577
England Merseyside 202
England Middlesex 143
England MS 1
England NE Lincolnshire 17
England NM 88012 1
England Norfolk 207
England North Lincolnshire 15
England North Somerset 33
England North Yorkshire 147
England Northamptonshire 152
England Northumberland 52
England Nottinghamshire 238
England NY 1
England OH 43623 1
England Oxfordshire 132
England Rutland 4
England Shropshire 79
England Somerset 157
England South Gloucestershire 28
England South Yorkshire 279
England Staffordshire 189
England Suffolk 174
England Surrey 392
England Tyne & Wear 187
England Tyne and wear 2
England Warwickshire 129
England West Midlands 375
England West Sussex 195
England West Yorkshire 393
England Wiltshire 152
England Worcestershire 90
England Wythenshawe 1
England Yorkshire 8
Northern Ireland -none- 9
Northern Ireland Antrim 1
Northern Ireland Co Cavan 1
Northern Ireland Co. Antrim 130
Northern Ireland Co. Armagh 43
Northern Ireland Co. Derry 15
Northern Ireland Co. Down 86
Northern Ireland Co. Fermanagh 12
Northern Ireland Co. Londonderry 27
Northern Ireland Co. Tyrone 27
Scotland -none- 15
Scotland Aberdeenshire 61
Scotland Angus 20
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 Dumfriesshire 1
Scotland Dunbartonshire 11
Scotland East Ayrshire 7
Scotland East Dunbartonshire 9
Scotland East Lothian 20
Scotland Falkirk 1
Scotland Fife 56
Scotland Grampian 4
Scotland Highland 15
Scotland Inverclyde 3
Scotland Invernesshire 2
Scotland Isle of Bute 1
Scotland Isle of Lewis 3
Scotland Isle of Skye 1
Scotland Kirkcudbrightshire 1
Scotland Lanarkshire 41
Scotland Lothian 24
Scotland Midlothian 37
Scotland Moray 5
Scotland North Ayrshire 8
Scotland North Lanarkshire 42
Scotland Orkney 1
Scotland Outer Hebrides 2
Scotland Perth & Kinross 3
Scotland Perthshire 8
Scotland Renfrewshire 35
Scotland Ross-shire 11
Scotland Roxburghshire 8
Scotland Scottish Borders 11
Scotland Selkirkshire 5
Scotland Shetland 7
Scotland South Ayrshire 6
Scotland South Lanarkshire 21
Scotland Stirlingshire 42
Scotland Strathclyde 87
Scotland Sutherland 1
Scotland Tayside 1
Scotland West Dunbartonshire 2
Scotland West Lothian 34
Scotland Wigtownshire 1
Wales -none- 10
Wales Anglesey 15
Wales Caerphilly 3
Wales Carmarthenshire 25
Wales Ceredigion 11
Wales Clwyd 14
Wales Conwy 13
Wales Denbighshire 20
Wales Dyfed 2
Wales Flintshire 15
Wales Glamorgan 22
Wales Gwent 50
Wales Gwynedd 21
Wales Mid Glamorgan 31
Wales Monmouthshire 20
Wales Pembrokeshire 22
Wales Powys 16
Wales Rhondda Cynon Taff 15
Wales South Glamorgan 41
Wales Vale of Glamorgan 19
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
Algeria 1
Argentina 93
Aruba 1
Australia 1676
Austria 32
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 1
Belarus 8
Belgium 75
Bermuda 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8
Botswana 1
Brazil 204
Brunei Darussalam 1
Bulgaria 12
Cambodia 1
Canada 1028
Canary Islands 6
Chile 43
China 29
Colombia 51
Costa Rica 2
Croatia 19
Cuba 2
Curacao 1
Cyprus 11
Czech Republic 27
Denmark 92
Dominican Republic 5
Ecuador 8
Egypt 11
Eire 601
El Salvador 1
Estonia 8
Faroe Islands 1
Fiji 1
Finland 84
France 207
Georgia 4
Germany 331
Ghana 1
Gibraltar 7
Greece 24
Guam 1
Guatemala 12
Guernsey 12
Hong Kong 25
Hungary 9
Iceland 19
India 58
Indonesia 12
Iran 9
Iraq 1
Israel 58
Italy 195
Japan 21
Jersey 12
Jordan 4
Kazakhstan 1
Kenya 2
Kuwait 4
Latvia 6
Lebanon 7
Lithuania 2
Luxembourg 6
Macedonia 2
Malawi 1
Malaysia 21
Maldives 1
Malta 16
Mexico 53
Moldova 3
Montenegro 1
Morocco 9
Namibia 1
New Zealand 426
Nigeria 3
North Macedonia 4
Norway 157
Oman 5
Pakistan 7
Peru 7
Philippines 15
Poland 149
Portugal 51
Puerto Rico 9
Qatar 10
Republic of Panama 4
Romania 56
Russia 144
Saudi Arabia 20
Senegal 1
Serbia 7
Singapore 24
Slovakia 15
Slovenia 16
Somalia 1
South Africa 150
South Korea 12
Spain 212
Sri Lanka 5
Sudan 1
Swaziland 1
Sweden 143
Switzerland 78
Syria 1
Taiwan 10
Thailand 13
The Netherlands 321
Trinidad & Tobago 3
Tunisia 3
Turkey 49
U.S.A. 9594
Uganda 1
UK 7
Ukraine 20
United Arab Emirates 31
United Kingdom 12531
Uruguay 8
Uzbekistan 1
Venezuela 9
Vietnam 5
Zimbabwe 2
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