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 Manchester has one of the largest and most comprehensive multidisciplinary clinical genetics units in UK and
Europe providing integrated clinical and laboratory genetics services to a population of over 4 million and academic
programmes in molecular genetics and health services research.
The service is based both at St Mary’s Hospital and the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The cancer genetics service also has clinics at Christie NHS Trust.
The aim of the regional genetic service is to provide a diagnostic, counselling and support service to individuals
and their families with a genetic disorder affecting any body system at any age.
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We therefore provide a comprehensive service for prenatal genetics, dysmorphology, neuromuscular genetics,
neuropsychiatric genetics, ophthalmic genetics, cardiac genetics and cancer genetics.
Clinical diagnostic and counselling services are provided from clinics in the centre and in an
outreach network of facilities throughout the North West of England.
The unit is a major training centre for specialist registrars, scientists and for professionals from other
disciplines. It also established the first MSc course in Genetic Counselling in Europe in 1992.
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