diff --git a/bin/stats/utils.py b/bin/stats/utils.py
index f4e824f..33d7012 100644
--- a/bin/stats/utils.py
+++ b/bin/stats/utils.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from numpy.typing import NDArray
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 import itertools
-from itertools import permutations
 
 BASE_TYPES = ["A", "C", "G", "T"]
 
@@ -40,15 +39,6 @@ def argmax(collection) -> int:
 
 nucs = ('A', 'C', 'G', 'T')
 
-def make_variant_header_dict():
-    nuc_pairs = permutations(nucs, 2)
-    keys = ((x, NUC_STR_TO_IND[y]) for x, y in nuc_pairs)
-    return {k:v for v, k in enumerate(keys)}
-
-header_dict = make_variant_header_dict()
-
-for item in header_dict.items():
-    print(item)
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
 class SiteVariantData: