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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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.

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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?

Download the Little Yellow Book
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- 61
England Avon 137
England Bath & NE Somerset 12
England Bedfordshire 149
England Berkshire 142
England Buckinghamshire 141
England Cambridgeshire 224
England Cheshire 262
England Cleveland 70
England Cornwall 123
England County Durham 134
England Cumbria 84
England Derbyshire 170
England Devon 223
England Dorset 126
England East Riding of Yorkshire 32
England East Sussex 224
England East Yorkshire 65
England Essex 409
England Gloucestershire 114
England Greater Manchester 300
England Hampshire 400
England Herefordshire 30
England Hertfordshire 258
England Humberside 17
England Isle of Man 10
England Isle of Wight 22
England Kent 472
England Lancashire 402
England Leicestershire 141
England Lincolnshire 190
England London 554
England Merseyside 190
England Middlesex 138
England MS 1
England NE Lincolnshire 16
England NM 88012 1
England Norfolk 193
England North Lincolnshire 13
England North Somerset 32
England North Yorkshire 143
England Northamptonshire 148
England Northumberland 51
England Nottinghamshire 226
England NY 1
England Oxfordshire 127
England Rutland 4
England Shropshire 75
England Somerset 147
England South Gloucestershire 27
England South Yorkshire 266
England Staffordshire 183
England Suffolk 169
England Surrey 383
England Tyne & Wear 181
England Warwickshire 121
England West Midlands 359
England West Sussex 184
England West Yorkshire 373
England Wiltshire 147
England Worcestershire 82
England Wythenshawe 1
England Yorkshire 8
Northern Ireland -none- 7
Northern Ireland Antrim 1
Northern Ireland Co. Antrim 125
Northern Ireland Co. Armagh 36
Northern Ireland Co. Derry 14
Northern Ireland Co. Down 81
Northern Ireland Co. Fermanagh 12
Northern Ireland Co. Londonderry 25
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 8
Scotland East Lothian 19
Scotland Fife 56
Scotland Grampian 5
Scotland Highland 15
Scotland Inverclyde 3
Scotland Invernesshire 1
Scotland Invernessshire 1
Scotland Isle of Bute 1
Scotland Isle of Lewis 3
Scotland Isle of Skye 1
Scotland Kirkcudbrightshire 1
Scotland Lanarkshire 38
Scotland Lothian 24
Scotland Midlothian 35
Scotland Moray 5
Scotland North Ayrshire 7
Scotland North Lanarkshire 39
Scotland Orkney 1
Scotland Outer Hebrides 1
Scotland Perth & Kinross 1
Scotland Perthshire 8
Scotland Renfrewshire 34
Scotland Ross-shire 11
Scotland Roxburghshire 8
Scotland Scottish Borders 11
Scotland Selkirkshire 4
Scotland Shetland 7
Scotland South Ayrshire 5
Scotland South Lanarkshire 20
Scotland Stirlingshire 41
Scotland Strathclyde 87
Scotland Sutherland 1
Scotland Tayside 1
Scotland West Dunbartonshire 2
Scotland West Lothian 33
Scotland Wigtownshire 1
Wales -none- 8
Wales Anglesey 15
Wales Caerphilly 1
Wales Carmarthenshire 25
Wales Ceredigion 11
Wales Clwyd 14
Wales Conwy 13
Wales Denbighshire 19
Wales Dyfed 2
Wales Flintshire 15
Wales Glamorgan 20
Wales Gwent 51
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 88
Aruba 1
Australia 1619
Austria 30
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 1
Belarus 7
Belgium 72
Bermuda 3
BN43 6AZ 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8
Brazil 189
Brunei Darussalam 1
Bulgaria 11
Cambodia 1
Canada 1003
Canary Islands 6
Chile 39
China 29
Colombia 44
Costa Rica 1
Croatia 18
Cuba 2
Curacao 1
Cyprus 12
Czech Republic 24
Denmark 89
Dominican Republic 5
Ecuador 7
Egypt 8
Eire 583
El Salvador 1
Estonia 8
Faroe Islands 1
Fiji 1
Finland 84
France 200
Georgia 4
Germany 314
Ghana 1
Gibraltar 7
Greece 23
Guam 1
Guatemala 11
Guernsey 12
Hong Kong 24
Hungary 8
Iceland 18
India 55
Indonesia 12
Iran 7
Iraq 1
Israel 55
Italy 187
Japan 17
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 50
Moldova 3
Montenegro 1
Morocco 9
Namibia 1
New Zealand 414
Nigeria 3
North Macedonia 4
Norway 152
Oman 5
Pakistan 7
Peru 7
Philippines 15
Poland 131
Portugal 47
Puerto Rico 8
Qatar 10
Republic of Panama 4
Romania 49
Russia 134
Saudi Arabia 15
Senegal 1
Serbia 6
Singapore 21
Slovakia 12
Slovenia 14
Somalia 1
South Africa 147
South Korea 12
Spain 201
Sri Lanka 5
Sudan 1
Sweden 138
Switzerland 75
Syria 1
Taiwan 10
Thailand 13
The Netherlands 310
Trinidad & Tobago 3
Tunisia 3
Turkey 45
U.S.A. 9295
Uganda 1
Ukraine 16
United Arab Emirates 31
United Kingdom 11975
Uruguay 8
Uzbekistan 1
Venezuela 8
Vietnam 5
Zimbabwe 2