The article touches or at least hints to ploidy level. The author talks briefly about being a carrier of a disease.
But as you state, it is devoid of the 4D structure leading to the central dogma of molecular biology (DNA->RNA->Protein->function). This might be the natural discourse between science and the public. NGS technology didn't really exploid until 2005. So ten years roughly, to get the media to start talking about re-sequencing experiements. I don't know the normal length of time before trends in scientific literature bleeds into general mass media, but I would think it would be at least several years, if not a decade.
With that being said, structural genomes (which the author technically foreshadows with insertions/deletions) and their spatial effects on RNA expression is still a large mystery in scientific literature - so it wouldn't surprise me at all that it's not included or missed by a journalist.
But as you state, it is devoid of the 4D structure leading to the central dogma of molecular biology (DNA->RNA->Protein->function). This might be the natural discourse between science and the public. NGS technology didn't really exploid until 2005. So ten years roughly, to get the media to start talking about re-sequencing experiements. I don't know the normal length of time before trends in scientific literature bleeds into general mass media, but I would think it would be at least several years, if not a decade.
With that being said, structural genomes (which the author technically foreshadows with insertions/deletions) and their spatial effects on RNA expression is still a large mystery in scientific literature - so it wouldn't surprise me at all that it's not included or missed by a journalist.