People do say it but I don t think anyone has drawn your attention to the distinction between genetic material and models of genetic information before There is a reason that people refer to the human genome notice not any genome of an individual of the human species using metaphors like autobiography or compendium or even more obviously code These are representations of objects descriptions of a person s life not the person not the objects themselves The distinction is more common when people aren t comparing human to non human animals but are already focused on humansbecause of rights issues So you might have to look in discussions where the applications of your perspective is known to have bad consequences e g in the human genome diversity project Here is one example by a geneticist that literally spells it out for you