It's a university press release.[1] I'm sending the link to the published paper from Science kindly shared in an earlier comment here to some geneticists I know locally, who have just been in a seminar together this afternoon, I'm pretty sure. The editors of Science evidently agreed that there is something interesting here, but they have been wrong before.[2]
AFTER EDIT: I heard back from one of my local geneticist friends, a mathematician turned psychologist by higher education who largely does statistical analysis as part of a team of researchers on behavior genetics. He writes, from the perspective of behavior genetics research, "That is fascinating, but if duons are also tagged by SNPs, and especially if they are in the exomic DNA, we've already been studying them and finding very little. In other words, this is huge for molecular genetics and physiology, but I'm not so sure it changes what we do in genotype-phenotype association research." So I take that to say that this could be quite a big deal for molecular genetics and physiology, if this finding is confirmed in follow-up research.
[1] http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
https://www.sciencenews.org/node/5635
http://www.nature.com/news/arsenic-life-bacterium-prefers-ph...
AFTER EDIT: I heard back from one of my local geneticist friends, a mathematician turned psychologist by higher education who largely does statistical analysis as part of a team of researchers on behavior genetics. He writes, from the perspective of behavior genetics research, "That is fascinating, but if duons are also tagged by SNPs, and especially if they are in the exomic DNA, we've already been studying them and finding very little. In other words, this is huge for molecular genetics and physiology, but I'm not so sure it changes what we do in genotype-phenotype association research." So I take that to say that this could be quite a big deal for molecular genetics and physiology, if this finding is confirmed in follow-up research.