TNF and Sepsis: Of the 34 publications, 30 (33 studies) examined correlations between the TNF-α −308 A/G polymorphism and risk of sepsis [11, 14–25, 27–40, 42–44], 8 examined correlations between this polymorphism and risk of septic shock [16, 22, 28, 35–36, 38–39, 43], and 16 examined correlations between this polymorphism and risk of sepsis-related mortality [12–13, 18–19, 22, 26, 28, 30–32, 34–36, 41–43].