diff --git a/public/scala/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/queue/extensions/gatk/VcfGatherFunction.scala b/public/scala/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/queue/extensions/gatk/VcfGatherFunction.scala
index f8a6cb2cb..d70022147 100644
--- a/public/scala/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/queue/extensions/gatk/VcfGatherFunction.scala
+++ b/public/scala/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/queue/extensions/gatk/VcfGatherFunction.scala
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ class VcfGatherFunction extends CombineVariants with GatherFunction {
     this.intervalsString = this.originalGATK.intervalsString
 
     this.variant = this.gatherParts.zipWithIndex map { case (input, index) => new TaggedFile(input, "input"+index) }
-    this.rod_priority_list = (0 until this.gatherParts.size).map("input"+_).mkString(",")
     this.out = this.originalOutput
     this.assumeIdenticalSamples = true