Nonetheless, despite a lack of consistent obesity-associated microbial community patterns in humans, there are reports that have associated individual bacterial species, such as the mucin-degrading bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila from the phylum Verrucomicrobia, with the modulation of obesity (Dao et al., 2016; Abuqwider et al., 2021). The gene discussed is MUC5AC; the disease is obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency.