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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- 91
England Avon 146
England Bath & NE Somerset 13
England Bedfordshire 169
England Berkshire 152
England Buckinghamshire 161
England Cambridgeshire 259
England Cheshire 303
England Cleveland 72
England Cornwall 142
England County Durham 149
England Coventry 1
England Cumbria 94
England Derbyshire 189
England Devon 259
England Dorset 154
England Durham 1
England East Riding of Yorkshire 36
England East Sussex 243
England East Yorkshire 71
England Essex 467
England Gloucestershire 136
England Greater Manchester 343
England Hampshire 482
England Herefordshire 37
England Hertfordshire 283
England Humberside 18
England Isle of Man 11
England Isle of Wight 26
England Kent 512
England Lancashire 473
England Leicestershire 169
England Lincolnshire 224
England London 634
England Merseyside 227
England Middlesex 150
England MS 1
England NE Lincolnshire 19
England NM 88012 1
England Norfolk 227
England North Lincolnshire 16
England North Somerset 36
England North Yorkshire 171
England Northamptonshire 161
England Northumberland 55
England Nottinghamshire 263
England NY 1
England NY 12144 1
England OH 4487 1
England Oxfordshire 143
England Rutland 4
England Shropshire 86
England Somerset 176
England South Gloucestershire 30
England South Yorkshire 317
England Staffordshire 200
England Suffolk 187
England Surrey 431
England Tyne & Wear 207
England Tyne and Wear 1
England Warwickshire 146
England West Midlands 424
England West Sussex 223
England West Yorkshire 419
England Wiltshire 164
England Worcestershire 99
England Wythenshawe 1
England Yorkshire 14
Northern Ireland -none- 13
Northern Ireland Antrim 2
Northern Ireland Co. Antrim 141
Northern Ireland Co. Armagh 46
Northern Ireland Co. Cavan 1
Northern Ireland Co. Cork 1
Northern Ireland Co. Derry 22
Northern Ireland Co. Down 95
Northern Ireland Co. Fermanagh 12
Northern Ireland Co. Londonderry 29
Northern Ireland Co. Tyrone 29
Northern Ireland County Armagh 1
Scotland -none- 27
Scotland Aberdeenshire 65
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 60
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 41
Scotland Moray 5
Scotland North Ayrshire 10
Scotland North Lanarkshire 45
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 3
Scotland West Lothian 43
Scotland Wigtownshire 1
Wales -none- 13
Wales Anglesey 15
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 24
Wales Gwent 54
Wales Gwynedd 20
Wales Mid Glamorgan 32
Wales Monmouthshire 22
Wales Neath Port Talbot 2
Wales Pembrokeshire 24
Wales Powys 19
Wales Rhondda Cynon Taff 14
Wales South Glamorgan 43
Wales Vale of Glamorgan 22
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 1
Argentina 101
Aruba 1
Australia 1808
Austria 36
Azerbaijan 2
Bahrain 1
Belarus 11
Belgium 81
Bermuda 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 12
Botswana 1
Brazil 237
Brunei Darussalam 1
Bulgaria 16
Cambodia 1
Canada 1123
Canary Islands 6
Chile 48
China 34
Colombia 61
Costa Rica 2
Croatia 23
Cuba 3
Curacao 1
Cyprus 18
Czech Republic 32
Denmark 105
Dominican Republic 6
E12 6PA 1
Ecuador 10
Egypt 13
Eire 655
El Salvador 1
Estonia 8
Faroe Islands 2
Fiji 1
Finland 87
France 231
Georgia 6
Germany 369
Ghana 1
Gibraltar 8
Greece 29
Guam 1
Guatemala 14
Guernsey 14
Hong Kong 26
Hungary 10
Iceland 19
India 74
Indonesia 13
Iran 11
Iraq 1
Israel 63
Italy 231
Japan 26
Jersey 15
Jordan 5
Kazakhstan 4
Kenya 3
Kosovo 1
Kuwait 6
Latvia 6
Lebanon 7
Lithuania 4
Luxembourg 7
Macedonia 3
Malawi 1
Malaysia 25
Maldives 1
Malta 16
Mexico 61
Moldova 4
Montenegro 1
Morocco 11
Namibia 1
New Caledonia 1
New Zealand 467
Nicaragua 1
Nigeria 3
North Macedonia 4
Norway 178
Oman 6
Pakistan 10
Palestine 1
Peru 11
Philippines 19
Poland 190
Portugal 54
Puerto Rico 10
Qatar 10
Republic of Panama 4
Romania 61
Russia 173
Saudi Arabia 21
Senegal 1
Serbia 9
Singapore 28
Slovakia 16
Slovenia 18
Somalia 1
South Africa 167
South Korea 12
Spain 241
Sri Lanka 5
Sudan 1
Suriname 1
Swaziland 1
Sweden 159
Switzerland 90
Syria 1
Taiwan 11
Thailand 14
The Netherlands 344
Trinidad & Tobago 5
Tunisia 6
Turkey 58
U.S.A. 10336
Uganda 1
Ukraine 31
United Arab Emirates 34
United Kingdom 13685
Uruguay 8
US 1
Uzbekistan 3
Venezuela 10
Vietnam 6
Zimbabwe 2