TNF and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: In this study, we conducted the first comprehensive meta-analysis to test whether the TNF-α-308 polymorphism is associated with NHL overall risk or its subtypes, especially BCL, TCL, DLBCL, FL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphomas (CLL/SLL), mantel cell lymphomas (MCL), mucosal-associated lymphomas (MALT), peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCL) and natural killer/T-cell lymphomas (NK/TCL).