diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/playground/gatk/walkers/MultiSampleCaller.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/playground/gatk/walkers/MultiSampleCaller.java
index 2838f361a..a08d1b3b3 100644
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/playground/gatk/walkers/MultiSampleCaller.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/playground/gatk/walkers/MultiSampleCaller.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ public class MultiSampleCaller extends LocusWalker<String,String>
 {
     @Argument(required=false, shortName="fractional_counts", doc="should we use fractional counts?") public boolean FRACTIONAL_COUNTS = false;
     @Argument(required=false, shortName="max_iterations", doc="Maximum number of iterations for EM") public int MAX_ITERATIONS = 10;
-    @Argument(fullName="lodThreshold", shortName="lod", required=false, doc="lod threshold for outputting individual genotypes")       public Double lodThreshold = 0.0;
     @Argument(fullName="discovery_output", shortName="discovery_output", required=true, doc="file to write SNP discovery output to")       public String DISCOVERY_OUTPUT;
     @Argument(fullName="individual_output", shortName="individual_output", required=true, doc="file to write individual SNP calls to") public String INDIVIDUAL_OUTPUT;
     @Argument(fullName="sample_name_regex", shortName="sample_name_regex", required=false, doc="sample_name_regex") public String SAMPLE_NAME_REGEX = null;