Paik, the laboratory director at St. Francis Hospital, collected blood samples from 108 native Hawaiians (53 were of pure Hawaiian ancestry) and discovered that their genetic make-up is very similar to that of other Polynesian people.
原來就對考古、人類學有濃厚興趣的白榮基，就由夏威夷五個島中蒐集了一○八名夏威夷人的血液樣本（其中五十三名是純種的夏威夷土著），在同一天送到實驗室離析，他再把實驗結果與過去別人對波里尼西亞人所做的研究互相對照，發現夏威夷人的白血球抗原果然與他們極為類似。