Our kūpuna crossed over 4,000 miles of open water in waʻa that held a few dozen people, and that everything our kūpuna carried, they passed down to us including variants no database on earth has recorded. And for some ʻohana, a disease a doctor here would never think to test for. We wrote in the paper that precision medicine only means something if it reaches the least, the last, the looked-over, and the left-out.

For a thousand years we were the most remote people on the planet. We do not have to be the most remote people in medicine. {read}