HaplotypeCaller only generates header when called with recalibrated/dedupped BAM files

Hello,

I am having trouble calling variants using Haplotype Caller on simulated exome reads. I have been able to call reasonable-looking variants on the exome (simulated with dwgsim) with HaplotypeCaller before running it through the Best Practices Pre-Processing pipeline. The pre-processed data worked fine with UnifiedGenotyper but with HaplotypeCaller, though it runs without errors and seems to walk across the genome, only outputs a VCF header. I have tried calling variants with and without using -L to provide the exome regions (as recommended in this forum post: http://gatkforums.broadinstitute.org/discussion/1681/expected-file-size-haplotype-caller) but this hasn't made a difference - when we run the command with the pre-processed BAMs, we only get a VCF header. Everything has been tested with both 2.4-7 and 2.4-9.

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Command Used for HaplotypeCaller:

java -Xmx4g -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T HaplotypeCaller -R ucsc.hg19.fasta -I exome.realigned.dedup.recal.bam -o exome.raw.vcf -D dbsnp_137.hg19.vcf -stand_emit_conf 10 -rf BadCigar -L Illumin_TruSeq.bed --logging_level DEBUG

Commands Used for pre-processing (run in sequence using a Perl script):

java -Xmx16g -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T RealignerTargetCreator -nt 8 -R ucsc.hg19.fasta -I exome.bam -o exome.intervals -known dbsnp_137.hg19.vcf

java -Xmx4g -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T IndelRealigner -R ucsc.hg19.fasta -I exome.bam -o exome.realigned.bam -targetIntervals intervals.bam -known dbsnp_137.hg19.vcf

java -Xmx16g -jar MarkDuplicates.jar I=exome.realigned.bam METRICS_FILE=exome.dups O=exome.realigned.dedup.bam

samtools index exome.realigned.dedup

java -Xmx4g -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T BaseRecalibrator -nct 8 -R ucsc.hg19.fasta -I exome.realigned.dedup.bam -o exome.recal_data.grp -knownSites dbsnp_137.hg19.vcf -cov ReadGroupCovariate -cov ContextCovariate -cov CycleCovariate -cov QualityScoreCovariate

java -Xmx4g -jar GenomeAnalysisTK.jar -T PrintReads -nct 8 -R ucsc.hg19.fasta -I exome.realigned.dedup.bam -BQSR exome.recal_data.grp -baq CALCULATE_AS_NECESSARY -o exome.realigned.dedup.recal.bam