No direct evidence from our analyses provided support for the previously reported associations between TNF,9 IL138 and IL109, 10, 14 and BCL; TNF‐α,11 IL614 and IL109, 14 and FL; TNF‐α,11 IL5 and IL109 and DLBCL and TGF‐α11 and TNF9 and CLL. This evidence concerns the gene TNF and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.