In a particular central African population, 4% are born with sickle-cell disease (they are homozygous recessive at a hemoglobin loci). If this population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what percentage of the population is heterozygous at the relevant allele and has the selective advantage of being more resistant to malaria?

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32% of the population is heterozygous at the relevant allele and has the selective advantage of being more resistant to malaria