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In those parts of equatorial Africa where the malaria parasite is most common, the sickle-cell allele constitutes 20% of the β hemoglobin alleles in the human gene pool.
-Again, if this population were in equilibrium and if the sickle-cell allele is recessive, what proportion of the population should be susceptible to sickle-cell anemia under typical conditions?

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The sickle-cell allele is recessive, so the proportion of the population susceptible to sickle-cell anemia is the frequency of the homozygous recessive genotype, which is calculated as (0.20)^2 = 0.04.

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