Calling Rare Variants from Genotype Data -- Calling Variants from Sequence Data -- Rare Variant Quality Control -- Rare Structural Variants -- Functional Annotation of Rare Genetic Variants -- The 1000 Genomes Project -- The UK10K Project -- Population Isolates -- Natural Selection at Rare Variants -- Collapsing Approaches for the Association Analysis of Rare Variants -- Rare Variant Association Analysis: Beyond Collapsing Approaches -- Significance Thresholds for Rare Variant Signals -- Power of Rare Variant Aggregate Tests -- Replicating Sequence-based Association Studies of Rare Variants -- Meta-analysis of Rare Variants -- Population Stratification of Rare Variants -- Use of Appropriate Controls in Rare Variant Studies -- Trans-ethnic Fine-mapping of Rare Causal Variants.