NOS3 and coronary artery disorder: The family-based association in CAD associated genes SNPs were NOS3 (rs1799983), PON1 (rs662), LPA-PLA2 (rs1805017), MEF2A (rs325400), and LDLR (rs1122608, rs222867) showed transmission within families p≤ 0.05 whereas NOS3 (rs2070744), APOE (rs429358, rs7412) and TNF (rs1800629) showed no association TDT asymptotic p-value >0.05.