He went to school in Menin, and from the age of fifteen in Paris, where he studied law, beginning a legal practice in Arras.
In all cases, the disease is idiopathic, but is thought to involve inactivation of tumor suppressor genes (Menin gene in MEN1), or involve gain of function mutations (RET proto-oncogene MEN 2a).
On 9 May 1917, he was being piloted in Strutter serial number A963 when he used his gunnery skills to set a German Albatros D.III fighter afire in the sky west of Menin for his first victory.
Menin Gate | Menin |
The Girls' Grammar School building in Menin Way is now the very successful South Farnham School.
The MEN1 gene consists of ten exons, spanning about 10 kb, and encodes a 610 amino acid protein named menin.