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Understanding Rare Chromosome and Gene Disorders

The Power of Knowledge


We have documented the lifetime effects of the Rare Chromosome Disorders, Copy Number Variants and Single Gene Disorders of 27,000+ affected members in our confidential offline members' database. To view our database of Genotypes among our registered members, click Search below. Scroll further down this page for our disorder-specific information guides.

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Unique Insight


Professional membership is free and provides you with a wealth of information on rare chromosome disorders, copy number variants and single gene disorders, as well as a useful network including affected families and involved professionals.

BECOME A MEMBER

Welcome to Unique

Thank you for your interest in our work. We hope  you find our website, information guides and booklets informative and that they assist you in counselling the families with whom you work. Please tell them about us so that they are aware of the help and support we can offer them, including free membership of the group.

Unique is a small charity, totally dependent on voluntary donations and fundraising to continue our work. Please help us to continue helping you with your patients and clients by making a donation today.

Unique always welcomes the involvement and advice of medical, clinical and other involved professionals. If you are a paediatrician, therapist, geneticist or other professional working with people with rare chromosome disorders, copy number variants and gene disorders  associated with learning disability/developmental delay and wish to know more about how you can be involved in the work of Unique, please take a look at our 'How Can You Help?' section, further down this page.

How can we help?

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Our guide to rare chromosome disorders

How can you help?

We are keen to work with professionals to help our member families, to increase understanding and awareness of the challenges they face, to produce information of the highest quality and to support research into rare chromosome and gene disorders. We are grateul to the many professionals who make donations and organise fundraising events to help us continue our work and to raise awareness. Please consider helping and supporting us.

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- 77
England Avon 141
England Bath & NE Somerset 12
England Bedfordshire 161
England Berkshire 148
England Buckinghamshire 152
England Cambridgeshire 243
England Cheshire 285
England Cleveland 73
England Cornwall 132
England County Durham 146
England Cumbria 92
England Derbyshire 179
England Devon 241
England Dorset 141
England East Riding of Yorkshire 34
England East Sussex 231
England East Yorkshire 68
England Ecuador 1
England Essex 440
England Gloucestershire 127
England Greater Manchester 322
England Hampshire 441
England Herefordshire 35
England Hertfordshire 273
England Humberside 18
England Isle of Man 11
England Isle of Wight 23
England Kent 485
England Lancashire 443
England Leicestershire 152
England Lincolnshire 211
England London 588
England Merseyside 207
England Middlesex 145
England MS 1
England NE Lincolnshire 17
England NM 88012 1
England Norfolk 212
England North Lincolnshire 15
England North Somerset 35
England North Yorkshire 153
England Northamptonshire 152
England Northumberland 52
England Nottinghamshire 246
England NY 1
England OH 4487 1
England Oxfordshire 137
England Rutland 4
England Shropshire 81
England Somerset 161
England South Gloucestershire 29
England South Yorkshire 292
England Staffordshire 192
England Suffolk 180
England Surrey 403
England Tyne & Wear 192
England Tyne and Wear 2
England Warwickshire 135
England West Midlands 389
England West Sussex 209
England West Yorkshire 399
England Wiltshire 153
England Worcestershire 92
England Wythenshawe 1
England Yorkshire 9
Northern Ireland -none- 9
Northern Ireland Antrim 1
Northern Ireland Co. Antrim 132
Northern Ireland Co. Armagh 44
Northern Ireland Co. Cavan 1
Northern Ireland Co. Derry 17
Northern Ireland Co. Down 86
Northern Ireland Co. Fermanagh 12
Northern Ireland Co. Londonderry 28
Northern Ireland Co. Tyrone 28
Northern Ireland County Armagh 1
Scotland -none- 16
Scotland Aberdeenshire 61
Scotland Angus 20
Scotland Argyll 5
Scotland Argyll & Bute 13
Scotland Arran 1
Scotland Ayrshire 34
Scotland Berwickshire 1
Scotland Caithness 4
Scotland Central 10
Scotland Clackmannanshire 3
Scotland Dumfries & Galloway 18
Scotland Dumfrieshire 8
Scotland Dunbartonshire 11
Scotland East Ayrshire 8
Scotland East Dunbartonshire 9
Scotland East Lothian 21
Scotland Falkirk 1
Scotland Fife 56
Scotland Glasgow 1
Scotland Grampian 4
Scotland Highland 15
Scotland Inverclyde 4
Scotland Invernesshire 3
Scotland Isle of Bute 1
Scotland Isle of Lewis 3
Scotland Isle of Skye 1
Scotland Kirkcudbrightshire 1
Scotland Lanarkshire 43
Scotland Lothian 24
Scotland Midlothian 39
Scotland Moray 5
Scotland North Ayrshire 9
Scotland North Lanarkshire 42
Scotland Orkney 1
Scotland Outer Hebrides 2
Scotland Perth & Kinross 3
Scotland Perthshire 8
Scotland Renfrewshire 35
Scotland Ross-shire 12
Scotland Roxburghshire 8
Scotland Scottish Borders 12
Scotland Selkirkshire 5
Scotland Shetland 7
Scotland South Ayrshire 7
Scotland South Lanarkshire 21
Scotland Stirlingshire 43
Scotland Strathclyde 87
Scotland Sutherland 1
Scotland Tayside 1
Scotland West Dunbartonshire 2
Scotland West Lothian 35
Scotland Wigtownshire 1
Wales -none- 12
Wales Anglesey 15
Wales Caerphilly 3
Wales Carmarthenshire 25
Wales Ceredigion 11
Wales Clwyd 14
Wales Conwy 14
Wales Denbighshire 20
Wales Dyfed 2
Wales Flintshire 16
Wales Glamorgan 22
Wales Gwent 51
Wales Gwynedd 21
Wales Mid Glamorgan 31
Wales Monmouthshire 22
Wales Pembrokeshire 23
Wales Pontypridd 1
Wales Powys 19
Wales Rhondda Cynon Taff 14
Wales South Glamorgan 41
Wales Vale of Glamorgan 20
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 94
Aruba 1
Australia 1709
Austria 33
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 1
Belarus 8
Belgium 76
Bermuda 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 9
Botswana 1
Brazil 212
Brunei Darussalam 1
Bulgaria 14
Cambodia 1
Canada 1052
Canary Islands 6
Chile 44
China 31
Colombia 55
Columbia 1
Costa Rica 2
Croatia 19
Cuba 2
Curacao 1
Cyprus 12
Czech Republic 28
Denmark 101
Dominican Republic 5
Ecuador 9
Egypt 11
Eire 614
El Salvador 1
Estonia 8
Faroe Islands 2
Fiji 1
Finland 85
France 214
Georgia 5
Germany 341
Ghana 1
Gibraltar 7
Greece 26
Guam 1
Guatemala 12
Guernsey 12
Hong Kong 25
Hungary 10
Iceland 19
India 60
Indonesia 12
Iran 10
Iraq 1
Israel 58
Italy 207
Japan 22
Jersey 12
Jordan 4
Kazakhstan 3
Kenya 2
Kuwait 5
Latvia 6
Lebanon 7
Lithuania 2
Luxembourg 6
Macedonia 3
Malawi 1
Malaysia 22
Maldives 1
Malta 16
Mexico 53
Moldova 3
Montenegro 1
Morocco 9
Namibia 1
New Zealand 438
Nigeria 3
North Macedonia 4
Norway 158
Oman 5
Pakistan 7
Peru 8
Philippines 15
Poland 165
Portugal 53
Puerto Rico 9
Qatar 10
Republic of Panama 4
Romania 57
Russia 150
Saudi Arabia 20
Senegal 1
Serbia 7
Singapore 25
Slovakia 15
Slovenia 17
Somalia 1
South Africa 153
South Korea 12
Spain 220
Sri Lanka 5
Sudan 1
Swaziland 1
Sweden 147
Switzerland 80
Syria 1
Taiwan 10
Thailand 13
The Netherlands 328
Trinidad & Tobago 4
Tunisia 3
Turkey 51
U.S.A. 9783
Uganda 1
Ukraine 25
United Arab Emirates 32
United Kingdom 12841
Uruguay 8
US 1
Uzbekistan 2
Venezuela 9
Vietnam 5
Zimbabwe 2