diff --git a/inputs/templates/test/FilterOutlierSamples/FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.json.tmpl b/inputs/templates/test/FilterOutlierSamples/FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.json.tmpl
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+{
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.sv_pipeline_docker": {{ dockers.sv_pipeline_docker | tojson }},
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.sv_base_mini_docker": {{ dockers.sv_base_mini_docker | tojson }},
+
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.N_IQR_cutoff": "1",
+
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.autosomes_list": {{ reference_resources.autosome_file | tojson }},
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.contigs_list": {{ reference_resources.primary_contigs_list | tojson }},
+
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.vcfs" : {{ test_batch.combined_vcfs | tojson }},
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.prefix": {{ test_batch.name | tojson }},
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.additional_samples_to_remove": "gs://broad-dsde-methods-eph/ref_panel_1kg.to_remove.txt",
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.plot_counts": "true",
+  "FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.filter_vcf": "true"
+}
diff --git a/wdl/FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.wdl b/wdl/FilterOutlierSamplesFinal.wdl
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+version 1.0
+
+import "Utils.wdl" as util
+import "ShardedCountSVs.wdl" as count
+import "PlotSVCountsPerSample.wdl" as plot
+
+workflow FilterOutlierSamplesFinal {
+  input {
+    String prefix
+    Array[File] vcfs  # sharded by contig, in order, allosomes last
+    File additional_samples_to_remove  # can be empty file if no additional
+
+    Int N_IQR_cutoff
+    Boolean filter_vcf
+    Boolean plot_counts
+    String? bcftools_preprocessing_options  # for preprocessing prior to SV counting. will not affect output VCFs
+
+    File? sv_counts_in  # SV counts file - if not provided, will create
+    File? all_samples_to_remove  # if not provided, will determine outliers to remove. if provided, will just filter vcfs
+    
+    File autosomes_list
+    File contigs_list
+
+    String sv_pipeline_docker
+    String sv_base_mini_docker
+
+  }
+
+  Array[Array[String]] autosomes = read_tsv(autosomes_list)
+  Array[String] contigs = read_lines(contigs_list)
+
+  if (!defined(sv_counts_in)) {
+    scatter ( i in range(length(autosomes)) ) {
+      call count.ShardedCountSVs {
+        input:
+          vcf = vcfs[i],
+          bcftools_preprocessing_options = bcftools_preprocessing_options,
+          prefix = "~{prefix}.~{autosomes[i][0]}",
+          sv_pipeline_docker = sv_pipeline_docker,
+          sv_base_mini_docker = sv_base_mini_docker
+      }
+    }
+
+    call count.SumSVCounts {
+      input:
+        counts = ShardedCountSVs.sv_counts,
+        prefix = "~{prefix}.all_autosomes",
+        sv_pipeline_docker = sv_pipeline_docker
+    }
+  }
+
+  File sv_counts_ = select_first([sv_counts_in, SumSVCounts.sv_counts_summed])
+
+  if (!defined(all_samples_to_remove) || plot_counts ) {
+    call plot.PlotSVCountsWithCutoff {
+      input:
+        svcounts = sv_counts_,
+        n_iqr_cutoff = N_IQR_cutoff,
+        prefix = prefix,
+        sv_pipeline_docker = sv_pipeline_docker
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!defined(all_samples_to_remove)) {
+    call util.GetSampleIdsFromVcf {
+      input:
+        vcf = vcfs[0],
+        sv_base_mini_docker = sv_base_mini_docker
+    }
+
+    call GetOutliersListAndCount {
+      input:
+        outlier_samples_with_reason = select_first([PlotSVCountsWithCutoff.outliers_list]),
+        cohort_samples = GetSampleIdsFromVcf.out_file,
+        additional_samples_to_remove = additional_samples_to_remove,
+        prefix = prefix,
+        sv_base_mini_docker = sv_base_mini_docker
+    }
+  }
+
+  File to_remove_ = select_first([all_samples_to_remove, GetOutliersListAndCount.samples_to_remove])
+
+  if (filter_vcf) {
+    scatter (i in range(length(contigs))) {
+      call util.SubsetVcfBySamplesList {
+        input:
+          vcf = vcfs[i],
+          list_of_samples = to_remove_,
+          outfile_name = "~{prefix}.~{contigs[i]}.outliers_removed.vcf.gz",
+          remove_samples = true,
+          sv_base_mini_docker = sv_base_mini_docker
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  
+  output {
+    File sv_counts = sv_counts_
+    File? sv_count_plots = PlotSVCountsWithCutoff.svcount_distrib_plots
+    File? outlier_samples_with_reason = PlotSVCountsWithCutoff.outliers_list
+    File? outlier_samples = GetOutliersListAndCount.outliers_list
+    Int? num_outliers = GetOutliersListAndCount.num_outliers
+    File samples_to_remove = to_remove_
+    Int? num_to_remove = GetOutliersListAndCount.num_to_remove
+    File? updated_sample_list = GetOutliersListAndCount.updated_sample_list
+    Int? new_sample_count = GetOutliersListAndCount.new_sample_count
+    Array[File]? vcfs_samples_removed = SubsetVcfBySamplesList.vcf_subset
+    Array[File]? vcf_indexes_samples_removed = SubsetVcfBySamplesList.vcf_subset_index
+  }
+}
+
+
+task GetOutliersListAndCount {
+  input {
+    File outlier_samples_with_reason
+    File cohort_samples
+    File additional_samples_to_remove
+    String prefix
+    String sv_base_mini_docker
+    RuntimeAttr? runtime_attr_override
+  }
+
+  RuntimeAttr default_attr = object {
+                               cpu_cores: 1,
+                               mem_gb: 3.75,
+                               disk_gb: 10 + ceil(size([outlier_samples_with_reason, cohort_samples, additional_samples_to_remove], "GiB")),
+                               boot_disk_gb: 10,
+                               preemptible_tries: 3,
+                               max_retries: 1
+                             }
+  RuntimeAttr runtime_attr = select_first([runtime_attr_override, default_attr])
+
+  command <<<
+    set -euo pipefail
+    
+    # extract sample id column, remove header, deduplicate outlier samples list
+    cut -f1 ~{outlier_samples_with_reason} | sed '1d' | sort | uniq > ~{prefix}.SV_count_outlier_samples.txt
+    wc -l < ~{prefix}.SV_count_outlier_samples.txt > outlier_count.txt
+
+    # merge outliers & additional samples to remove and deduplicate
+    cat ~{prefix}.SV_count_outlier_samples.txt ~{additional_samples_to_remove} | sort | uniq > ~{prefix}.outliers_plus_additional_to_remove.txt
+    wc -l < ~{prefix}.outliers_plus_additional_to_remove.txt > removed_count.txt
+
+    # filter cohort sample list
+    fgrep -wvf ~{prefix}.outliers_plus_additional_to_remove.txt ~{cohort_samples} > ~{prefix}.sample_list.filtered.txt || true
+    wc -l < ~{prefix}.sample_list.filtered.txt > new_count.txt
+  >>>
+
+  output {
+    Int num_outliers = read_int("outlier_count.txt")
+    File outliers_list = "~{prefix}.SV_count_outlier_samples.txt"
+    File samples_to_remove = "~{prefix}.outliers_plus_additional_to_remove.txt"
+    Int num_to_remove = read_int("removed_count.txt")
+    File updated_sample_list = "~{prefix}.sample_list.filtered.txt"
+    Int new_sample_count = read_int("new_count.txt")
+  }
+
+  runtime {
+    cpu: select_first([runtime_attr.cpu_cores, default_attr.cpu_cores])
+    memory: select_first([runtime_attr.mem_gb, default_attr.mem_gb]) + " GiB"
+    disks: "local-disk " + select_first([runtime_attr.disk_gb, default_attr.disk_gb]) + " HDD"
+    bootDiskSizeGb: select_first([runtime_attr.boot_disk_gb, default_attr.boot_disk_gb])
+    docker: sv_base_mini_docker
+    preemptible: select_first([runtime_attr.preemptible_tries, default_attr.preemptible_tries])
+    maxRetries: select_first([runtime_attr.max_retries, default_attr.max_retries])
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/wdl/ShardedCountSVs.wdl b/wdl/ShardedCountSVs.wdl
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+version 1.0
+
+import "PlotSVCountsPerSample.wdl" as plot
+import "CollectQcVcfWide.wdl" as collect
+import "TasksMakeCohortVcf.wdl" as tasks
+
+workflow ShardedCountSVs {
+  input {
+    File vcf
+    String prefix
+
+    String? bcftools_preprocessing_options
+    Int records_per_shard = 20000
+
+    String sv_pipeline_docker
+    String sv_base_mini_docker
+
+  }
+
+  call tasks.ScatterVcf {
+    input:
+      vcf = vcf,
+      records_per_shard = records_per_shard,
+      prefix = "~{prefix}.scatter",
+      sv_pipeline_docker = sv_pipeline_docker
+  }
+
+  scatter (i in range(length(ScatterVcf.shards))) {
+    if (defined(bcftools_preprocessing_options)) {
+      call collect.PreprocessVcf {
+        input:
+          vcf = ScatterVcf.shards[i],
+          bcftools_preprocessing_options=select_first([bcftools_preprocessing_options]),
+          prefix = "~{prefix}.shard_~{i}.preprocessed",
+          sv_base_mini_docker = sv_base_mini_docker
+      }
+    }
+
+    call plot.CountSVsPerSamplePerType {
+      input:
+        vcf = select_first([PreprocessVcf.outvcf, ScatterVcf.shards[i]]),
+        prefix = "~{prefix}.shard_~{i}",
+        sv_pipeline_docker = sv_pipeline_docker
+    }
+  }
+
+  call SumSVCounts {
+    input:
+      counts = CountSVsPerSamplePerType.sv_counts,
+      prefix = prefix,
+      sv_pipeline_docker = sv_pipeline_docker
+  }
+
+  output {
+    File sv_counts = SumSVCounts.sv_counts_summed
+  }
+}
+
+task SumSVCounts {
+  input {
+    Array[File] counts
+    String prefix
+    String sv_pipeline_docker
+    RuntimeAttr? runtime_attr_override
+  }
+
+  RuntimeAttr default_attr = object {
+    cpu_cores: 1,
+    mem_gb: 3.75,
+    disk_gb: 10 + ceil(size(counts, "GiB")),
+    boot_disk_gb: 10,
+    preemptible_tries: 3,
+    max_retries: 1
+  }
+  RuntimeAttr runtime_attr = select_first([runtime_attr_override, default_attr])
+
+  command <<<
+    set -euo pipefail
+    python <<CODE
+import pandas as pd
+counts = dict()
+for file_path in ["~{sep='", "' counts}"]:
+  with open(file_path, 'r') as inp:
+    inp.readline()  # skip header
+    for line in inp:
+      sample, svtype, count = line.strip().split('\t')
+      if sample in counts:
+        if svtype in counts[sample]:
+          counts[sample][svtype] += int(count)
+        else:
+          counts[sample][svtype] = int(count)
+      else:
+        counts[sample] = dict()
+        counts[sample][svtype] = int(count)
+with open("~{prefix}.sv_counts_summed.tsv", 'w') as out:
+  out.write("sample\tsvtype\tcount\n")
+  for sample in counts:
+    for svtype in counts[sample]:
+      out.write(f"{sample}\t{svtype}\t{counts[sample][svtype]}\n")
+CODE
+
+  >>>
+
+  output {
+    File sv_counts_summed = "~{prefix}.sv_counts_summed.tsv"
+  }
+
+  runtime {
+    cpu: select_first([runtime_attr.cpu_cores, default_attr.cpu_cores])
+    memory: select_first([runtime_attr.mem_gb, default_attr.mem_gb]) + " GiB"
+    disks: "local-disk " + select_first([runtime_attr.disk_gb, default_attr.disk_gb]) + " HDD"
+    bootDiskSizeGb: select_first([runtime_attr.boot_disk_gb, default_attr.boot_disk_gb])
+    docker: sv_pipeline_docker
+    preemptible: select_first([runtime_attr.preemptible_tries, default_attr.preemptible_tries])
+    maxRetries: select_first([runtime_attr.max_retries, default_attr.max_retries])
+  }
+}