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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- 68
England Avon 140
England Bath & NE Somerset 12
England Bedfordshire 156
England Berkshire 144
England Birmingham 1
England Buckinghamshire 149
England Cambridgeshire 230
England Cheshire 272
England Cleveland 72
England Cornwall 127
England County Durham 140
England Cumbria 90
England Derbyshire 176
England Devon 233
England Dorset 135
England East Riding of Yorkshire 34
England East Sussex 230
England East Yorkshire 66
England Essex 420
England Gloucestershire 119
England Greater Manchester 311
England Hampshire 418
England Herefordshire 33
England Hertfordshire 266
England Humberside 17
England Isle of Man 10
England Isle of Wight 23
England Kent 481
England Lancashire 424
England Leicestershire 149
England Lincolnshire 200
England London 573
England Manchester 1
England Merseyside 198
England Middlesex 143
England MS 1
England NE Lincolnshire 17
England NM 88012 1
England Norfolk 204
England North Lanarkshire 1
England North Lincolnshire 14
England North Somerset 33
England North Yorkshire 147
England Northamptonshire 152
England Northumberland 51
England Nottinghamshire 236
England NY 1
England Oxfordshire 132
England Rutland 4
England Shropshire 79
England Somerset 156
England South Gloucestershire 28
England South Yorkshire 275
England Staffordshire 188
England Suffolk 172
England Surrey 388
England Tyne & Wear 185
England Tyne and Wear 1
England Warwickshire 124
England West Midlands 371
England West Sussex 189
England West Yorkshire 389
England Wiltshire 149
England Worcestershire 87
England Wythenshawe 1
England Yorkshire 8
Ireland Donegal 1
Northern Ireland -none- 8
Northern Ireland Antrim 1
Northern Ireland Co Cavan 1
Northern Ireland Co. Antrim 128
Northern Ireland Co. Armagh 39
Northern Ireland Co. Derry 15
Northern Ireland Co. Down 83
Northern Ireland Co. Fermanagh 12
Northern Ireland Co. Londonderry 26
Northern Ireland Co. Tyrone 27
Northern Ireland Co.Armagh 2
Scotland -none- 14
Scotland Aberdeenshire 59
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 Dunbartonshire 10
Scotland East Ayrshire 7
Scotland East Dunbartonshire 8
Scotland East Lothian 19
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 40
Scotland Lothian 24
Scotland Midlothian 36
Scotland Moray 5
Scotland North Ayrshire 8
Scotland North Lanarkshire 41
Scotland Orkney 1
Scotland Outer Hebrides 1
Scotland Perth & Kinross 2
Scotland Perthshire 8
Scotland Renfrewshire 34
Scotland Ross-shire 11
Scotland Roxburghshire 8
Scotland Scottish Borders 11
Scotland Selkirkshire 5
Scotland Shetland 7
Scotland South Ayrshire 6
Scotland South Lanarkshire 20
Scotland Stirlingshire 42
Scotland Strathclyde 87
Scotland Sutherland 1
Scotland Tayside 1
Scotland West Dunbartonshire 2
Scotland West Lothian 34
Scotland Western isles 1
Scotland Wigtownshire 1
Wales -none- 9
Wales Anglesey 15
Wales Caerphilly 2
Wales Carmarthenshire 25
Wales Ceredigion 11
Wales Clwyd 14
Wales Conwy 13
Wales Denbighshire 20
Wales Dyfed 2
Wales Flintshire 15
Wales Glamorgan 21
Wales Gwent 51
Wales Gwynedd 21
Wales Mid Glamorgan 31
Wales Monmouthshire 20
Wales Pembrokeshire 22
Wales Powys 16
Wales Rhondda Cynon Taff 15
Wales South Glamorgan 40
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 1660
Austria 31
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 1
Belarus 8
Belgium 74
Bermuda 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 8
Botswana 1
Brazil 199
Brunei Darussalam 1
Bulgaria 12
Cambodia 1
Canada 1023
Canary Islands 6
Chile 43
China 29
Colombia 49
Costa Rica 2
Croatia 18
Cuba 2
Curacao 1
Cyprus 11
Czech Republic 27
Denmark 91
Dominican Republic 5
Ecuador 8
Egypt 10
Eire 598
El Salvador 1
Estonia 8
Faroe Islands 1
Fiji 1
Finland 84
France 206
Georgia 4
Germany 328
Ghana 1
Gibraltar 7
Greece 24
Guam 1
Guatemala 11
Guernsey 12
Hong Kong 25
Hungary 9
Iceland 19
India 58
Indonesia 12
Iran 9
Iraq 1
Ireland 1
Israel 58
Italy 193
Japan 20
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 15
Mexico 51
Moldova 3
Montenegro 1
Morocco 9
Namibia 1
Netherlands 1
New Zealand 422
Nigeria 3
North Macedonia 4
Norway 154
Oman 5
Pakistan 7
Peru 7
Philippines 15
Poland 145
Portugal 51
Puerto Rico 9
Qatar 10
Republic of Panama 4
Romania 55
Russia 139
Saudi Arabia 19
Senegal 1
Serbia 7
Singapore 24
Slovakia 13
Slovenia 16
Somalia 1
South Africa 150
South Korea 12
Spain 206
Sri Lanka 5
Sudan 1
Swaziland 1
Sweden 140
Switzerland 78
Syria 1
Taiwan 10
Thailand 13
The Netherlands 318
Trinidad & Tobago 3
Tunisia 3
Turkey 47
U.S.A. 9516
Uganda 1
UK 5
Ukraine 20
United Arab Emirates 31
United Kingdom 12389
Uruguay 8
Uzbekistan 1
Venezuela 9
Vietnam 5
Zimbabwe 2