diff --git a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/variantcontext/GenotypeLikelihoods.java b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/variantcontext/GenotypeLikelihoods.java
index dba16cf86..292bc17cd 100755
--- a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/variantcontext/GenotypeLikelihoods.java
+++ b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/variantcontext/GenotypeLikelihoods.java
@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@
 package org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.variantcontext;
 
 import org.broad.tribble.TribbleException;
+import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.MathUtils;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.utils.codecs.vcf.VCFConstants;
 
+import java.util.EnumMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 public class GenotypeLikelihoods {
     public static final boolean CAP_PLS = false;
     public static final int PL_CAP = 255;
@@ -94,6 +98,16 @@ public class GenotypeLikelihoods {
         return likelihoodsAsString_PLs;
     }
 
+    public EnumMap<Genotype.Type,Double> getAsMap(boolean normalizeFromLog10){
+        //Make sure that the log10likelihoods are set
+        double[] likelihoods = normalizeFromLog10 ? MathUtils.normalizeFromLog10(getAsVector()) : getAsVector();
+        EnumMap<Genotype.Type,Double> likelihoodsMap = new EnumMap<Genotype.Type, Double>(Genotype.Type.class);
+        likelihoodsMap.put(Genotype.Type.HOM_REF,likelihoods[Genotype.Type.HOM_REF.ordinal()-1]);
+        likelihoodsMap.put(Genotype.Type.HET,likelihoods[Genotype.Type.HET.ordinal()-1]);
+        likelihoodsMap.put(Genotype.Type.HOM_VAR, likelihoods[Genotype.Type.HOM_VAR.ordinal() - 1]);
+        return likelihoodsMap;
+    }
+
     private final static double[] parsePLsIntoLikelihoods(String likelihoodsAsString_PLs) {
         if ( !likelihoodsAsString_PLs.equals(VCFConstants.MISSING_VALUE_v4) ) {
             String[] strings = likelihoodsAsString_PLs.split(",");