diff --git a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MendelianViolation.java b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MendelianViolation.java
index e140575c0..b9c209e69 100755
--- a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MendelianViolation.java
+++ b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/MendelianViolation.java
@@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
 package org.broadinstitute.sting.utils;
 
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.samples.Sample;
-import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.codecs.vcf.VCFHeaderLineType;
-import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.codecs.vcf.VCFInfoHeaderLine;
-import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.exceptions.UserException;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.variantcontext.Genotype;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.variantcontext.VariantContext;
 
 import java.util.*;
-import java.util.regex.Matcher;
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 /**
  * User: carneiro / lfran